As the race for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance accelerates, says chief economist at Moody’s Analytics Mark Zandi is sounding the alarm about a growing financial risk that distinguishes the current technological boom from the dot-com era: massive corporate debt. AI ‘overinvestment’ and rising debt In a stark warning issued on Sunday via While acknowledging that […]
Economist Justin Wolfers has issued a stark warning that white-collar professionals are now facing their ‘Detroit auto worker’ moment due to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). AI comes before cognitive jobs Wolfers argued on MSNBC that, unlike every major technological shift in the past, AI is the first to replace cognitive work in place […]
Mohammed El-ErianAllianz’s chief economic adviser strongly warned on Thursday that investments in some AI-related names will “end in tears”, even as he categorized the boom as a “rational bubble”. A ‘rational bubble’ with limited winners El-Erian argued that while AI is an “important general-purpose transformational technology” on par with electricity, the current market frenzy is […]