


OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022.
That was just a month after the stock market bottomed from the bear market and a few months after the inflation rate topped out at 9%.
At that point almost everyone assumed a recession was a foregone conclusion.
It didn’t happen.
Would we have seen an economic contraction if our tech overlords didn’t go on an insane AI spending spree from there?
Could there have been a…