Dhaka, Aug. 10 -- Artificial intelligence does not remove the production bottlenecks that limit efficiency but shifts them from one task to another, Professor Jean-Louis Arcand, President of the Global Development Network (GDN), said at a public lecture in the city on Monday.

"Artificial intelligence does not eliminate the bottlenecks that shape production; instead, it can shift them from one task to another," Arcand said, delivering a lecture titled "These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For: Endogenous AI, O-Rings, and the Bottleneck Reallocation Theorem" at BRAC Centre Inn in Mohakhali.

The event, organised by the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) in collaboration with GDN, drew researchers, academics, representatives...