San Diego faces economic challenges in the coming year, but one expert is guardedly optimistic about efforts to address affordability and the potential benefits of artificial intelligence.
Economists, business leaders and students gathered Thursday for the 42nd annual San Diego Economic Roundtable at the University of San Diego.
Keynote speaker Daniel Enemark, chief economist of the San Diego Regional Policy and Innovation Center, focused on economic challenges — housing, cuts to federal funding and segregation — but also looked at growth around AI and economic programs across San Diego County that may prove successful.
“I think that we can solve these problems,” he told the roughly 200 attendees. “I’m an optimist. But, we have to face the problems to solve them.”
Enemark started with several good things about San Diego County: A gross domestic product bigger than half…
