AI companies bill their services using tokens, units corresponding to roughly three-quarters of a word. Economists are now using total token consumption as a macroeconomic indicator to measure AI penetration across sectors, mimicking the role previously played by electricity consumption in tracking industrialization. At the enterprise level, chief financial officers are now integrating token consumption into their budgets and ROI calculations, establishing what is being called AI tokenomics. This indicator distinguishes sectors where AI is actually deployed from those where it remains at the rhetorical stage, serving as a direct measure of the work performed by artificial intelligence.
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