Why "Dark Output", the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history (SemiAnalysis)

Jun 01, 2026 - 04:54
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Illustration of AI-generated economic value labeled Dark Output that remains invisible to national statistics.

SemiAnalysis:
Why “Dark Output”, the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history  —  Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history.

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Christopher Holloway

Christopher Holloway is the founder and director of Progressive Robot, a UK-based technology company. A full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience, he works across PHP development, ecommerce, Linux infrastructure, technical SEO and AI automation, and writes here on technology, AI, hardware and software.

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