Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Depending on who you ask, AI was the financial growth story of 2025. In the first nine months of 2025, spending related to AI accounted for around 38 percent of real GDP growth across the United States, according to analysis by the St. Louis Fed. Not every economist agrees with that math, but the Trump administration has evidently seen enough to know where they stand. With AI just about o