IMF chief warns AI investment can amplify valuation, labor and systemic risks while potentially adding about 0.5% to annual global growth

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IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned on October 7, ahead of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings, that rapidly expanding AI investment is creating a powerful demand shock while introducing risks through stretched valuations, labor disruption, cybersecurity and financial-system channels. She called for workforce skills, regulatory efficiency and stronger risk management, while saying well-managed AI could add roughly 0.5 percentage points to annual global growth. Reuters places those AI risks alongside energy-price shocks and high public debt as major uncertainties for the global outlook. This entry records the IMF's macroeconomic assessment rather than a new AI product or model.