Viewpoint: Will the world need dollars to power the AI economy?

The US dollar’s global dominance has long been tied to the oil trade, with countries relying on the greenback to purchase energy and oil-exporting nations recycling their earnings into US financial assets.

But as AI becomes increasingly central to the global economy, could AI become the new oil for the US dollar? 

On Viewpoint, Ryan Huang speaks to Vikram Khanna, Economics Commentator and former Associate Editor, The Straits Times, about whether AI could become the next driver of global US dollar demand, how the AI economy could reshape the flow of international capital, and what it would take for an “AI dollar” to emerge.

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