AI puts $4.7 trillion of profits at stake, creating a competitive battleground across industries
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NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AI puts $4.7 trillion of the profits of global business at stake between now and 2035 as its far-reaching impact drastically reshapes the global economy. In-depth Bain & Company analysis maps for the first time how AI is reorganizing whole industries and will create a wave of winners and losers across sectors as companies battle to seize the technology's potential. Bain's calculation of the $4.7 trillion of profits put at stake by AI captures the scale of the business battleground confronting CEOs over the decade. It dwarfs even the $1.4 trillion of profit shifts over 20 years from the advent of the Internet, the last great technology disruption. In only half that time, AI will have more than triple the economic impact, reaching 1.7 times more widely, with 71% of sectors confronting structural transformation, versus 41% for the Internet, Bain reports. Across 92 individual sectors, Bain's study charts the seismic shifts already taking place in industries' profit pools as AI use rapidly expands. It lays out the driving forces and breaks down which sectors will be most disrupted as the technology, and how CEOs respond, shapes a global business landscape of leaders, laggards, and losers. "The $4.7 trillion profit pool shift is real, revolutionary, and already well underway. This is why, whatever sector companies are in...
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