AI Is Becoming Essential for Measuring US Inflation and Growth

Published on August 11, 2026

A few months into the second Trump administration, I found myself in a packed room alongside senior officials of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The topic, “Ensuring the Quality of US Statistics,” would have drawn little more than a collective yawn a decade ago.

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