https://aifaultline.com/authors/tuan-hock-ng/New papers by Tuan Hock Ng in the AI Fault Line guide, and news naming them. https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1016-j-ssaho-2026-103822/https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1016-j-ssaho-2026-103822/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000This study relates national AI development (Stanford's Global AI Vibrancy Index) to total factor productivity across 35 countries from 2017 to 2023. Lagged AI development is positively associated with TFP growth, but the link is strongest in countries already at the top of the productivity-growth distribution and weak or insignificant at the bottom.