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Hundreds of billions of dollars spent, a surge in mental health concerns and thousands of jobs lost.
The link between it all? Artificial intelligence, the buzzy yet controversial technology being depicted as the future or the stock market’s next bubble, depending on who you ask.
Although AI has been a key technology…
