Julia McFarlane
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503 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 16 Jan
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As everyone in Silicon Valley remembers, we have been here before.
This was March 2000, when many of the first generation of heavily backed internet firms were swamped in an avalanche of red as investors lost faith.
$5 trillion were wiped off the US tech index over two years.
as shares crumbled.
Professor of Finance John Danielson at the London School of Economics has made a career out of studying economic bubbles.
He says that new technologies have a way of attracting too much hype and investment.
What happens is we all get sort of swept up in the bubble.
Prices go up, we buy and we get wealthier, and that makes us feel smart and makes us feel rich.
It validates our beliefs about ourselves.
Every time when we have some fantastic new technology, we know that some companies will end up becoming fabulously rich.
Some companies will end up owning this space, if you will.
And of course, that means a lot of people want to be a part of that.
So we are trying to spot the winner, but of course, most of us make a big mistake.
With the AI bubble, somebody will end up dominating this in the years and decades down the road.
Will it be the current companies?
I sort of doubt that.
While artificial intelligence technology offers world-changing promise, critics say the actual economic returns are still unproven.
Already eye-watering sums, hundreds of billions of dollars, have been committed to new projects like this data centre in Louisiana.
Total AI investment could reach $5 trillion by 2030.
But for now, it's estimated that 95% of companies currently trying to deploy AI are not actually seeing any profit from it.
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