Chamath just asked the question nobody in AI wants to answer (Save this).
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-05-16
Milk Road AI highlights Chamath Palihapitiya's public challenge to the AI industry demanding a clear return-on-investment accounting for $3 trillion spent on AI over the past four years.
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Topics: ai-roiai-spendingventure-capital-aiai-economics
Claims
- The AI industry has collectively spent approximately $3 trillion over the past four years.
- No clear, defensible ROI for AI token consumption has been publicly demonstrated at scale.
- The question of AI's return on investment is described as the most important open question in technology today.
- Most people currently profiting from AI investment are unable to answer the ROI question adequately.
Key quotes
Okay guys, you've spent $3 trillion in the last four years. What is the ROI of these tokens?