Debt fuels global AI bubble
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Analysts and commentators warned that heavy debt‑financed datacenter buildouts fueling the AI boom risked an abrupt global bubble collapse if growth and profit expectations failed to materialize.
Growing Debate Over AI as Tech Leaders Call for Slowdown www.today.com/video/growin...
Growing Debate Over AI as Tech Leaders Call for Slowdown
Artificial Intelligence has promised everything from increased workplace productivity and potential medical breakthroughs to the ability to transform our everyday lives. But the past month has exposed...
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September 20, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Growing Debate Over AI as Tech Leaders Call for Slowdown www.today.com/video/growin...
Reposted by Greg Linden
The same people claiming AI will kill us all also make impossible economic promises.
There's a credulity bubble where we're obliged to believe the dumbest claims of tech titans.
If Sam Altman said he could fly, the press would just print it without question
finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
There's a credulity bubble where we're obliged to believe the dumbest claims of tech titans.
If Sam Altman said he could fly, the press would just print it without question
finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
Anthropic says AI could double the U.S. economy every 4.5 years — but push knowledge-worker unemployment to 18%
The AI company has modeled 3 futures for the US economy in 2030 and its most extreme case has economic growth exploding and nearly 18% of knowledge workers unemployed.
finance.yahoo.com
September 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
The same people claiming AI will kill us all also make impossible economic promises.
There's a credulity bubble where we're obliged to believe the dumbest claims of tech titans.
If Sam Altman said he could fly, the press would just print it without question
finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
There's a credulity bubble where we're obliged to believe the dumbest claims of tech titans.
If Sam Altman said he could fly, the press would just print it without question
finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
Reposted by Greg Linden
A couple more links that are helpful to understand that "AI will kill us all" is snake oil hype to attract investment.
Power through the academic jargon on this one, because he really lays out the case that Silicon Valley CEOs are giant liars.
nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-episte...
Power through the academic jargon on this one, because he really lays out the case that Silicon Valley CEOs are giant liars.
nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-episte...
The Epistemic Crisis Behind the AI Crazy
We’re wiped away the horizon of a shared future, and it’s driving people literally insane
nilsgilman.substack.com
September 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM
A couple more links that are helpful to understand that "AI will kill us all" is snake oil hype to attract investment.
Power through the academic jargon on this one, because he really lays out the case that Silicon Valley CEOs are giant liars.
nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-episte...
Power through the academic jargon on this one, because he really lays out the case that Silicon Valley CEOs are giant liars.
nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-episte...
one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem
September 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM
one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem
Xi Jinping is increasingly betting everything on AI as the key to growth, but with negative consequences for the broader Chinese economy.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
In China, A.I. Is Moving Forward While the Economy Lags Behind (Gift Article)
As Xi Jinping arrives in the United States this week for a state visit, China’s advances in artificial intelligence will be in the air. Less discussed: China’s economy in its worst shape in decades.
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Xi Jinping is increasingly betting everything on AI as the key to growth, but with negative consequences for the broader Chinese economy.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
by Prem Sikka
Are global stock markets heading for a crash?
Red lights flashing.
Trump's tariff/military wars, supply chain disruptions, energy prices, AI bubble, unregulated shadow banks, deregulation, speculator frenzy, weigh heavy.
Recession/Bailouts would follow.
Innocent people will bear the cost, again.
Red lights flashing.
Trump's tariff/military wars, supply chain disruptions, energy prices, AI bubble, unregulated shadow banks, deregulation, speculator frenzy, weigh heavy.
Recession/Bailouts would follow.
Innocent people will bear the cost, again.
Are global stock markets heading for a crash?
Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Are global stock markets heading for a crash?
Red lights flashing.
Trump's tariff/military wars, supply chain disruptions, energy prices, AI bubble, unregulated shadow banks, deregulation, speculator frenzy, weigh heavy.
Recession/Bailouts would follow.
Innocent people will bear the cost, again.
Red lights flashing.
Trump's tariff/military wars, supply chain disruptions, energy prices, AI bubble, unregulated shadow banks, deregulation, speculator frenzy, weigh heavy.
Recession/Bailouts would follow.
Innocent people will bear the cost, again.
'Europe’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent’s central bank, Christine Lagarde, said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China.'
Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate
Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2026 at 7:52 AM
'Europe’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent’s central bank, Christine Lagarde, said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China.'
Apparently, the US admin is listening! "[per NYT] Trump is most concerned about economic growth, with AI being virtually the only sector driving the US economy. He reportedly fears the #AIBubble could burst, triggering a financial crisis [plunging] US into recession."
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
Trump administration destabilized by AI surge ahead of Xi Jinping's visit
On Friday, CNN revealed that an AI error nearly led the US military to board a Chinese ship suspected of carrying nuclear material near the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump, meanwhile, fears that a rece...
www.lemonde.fr
September 20, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Apparently, the US admin is listening! "[per NYT] Trump is most concerned about economic growth, with AI being virtually the only sector driving the US economy. He reportedly fears the #AIBubble could burst, triggering a financial crisis [plunging] US into recession."
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
by John Mecklin
Don't panic about AI. Demand that Congress create an Artificial Intelligence Commission to regulate it, as other dangerous technologies have been dealt with in the past. Along the way, educate yourself about AI via authoritative sources like the @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/the-ai-power...
The AI Power Trip - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
A year-long project examining how the people and organizations developing AI are gaining control of the world’s most critical systems.
thebulletin.org
September 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Don't panic about AI. Demand that Congress create an Artificial Intelligence Commission to regulate it, as other dangerous technologies have been dealt with in the past. Along the way, educate yourself about AI via authoritative sources like the @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/the-ai-power...
Reposted by Alessandro Nai
Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.
September 19, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.
So….maybe let’s not!?
“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time. It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created.”
Obvs, but thanks.
Obvs, but thanks.
Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Usel...
A Microsoft executive admitted that AI companies like itself were plundering websites without giving them in return.
futurism.com
September 19, 2026 at 8:29 PM
So….maybe let’s not!?
Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog
“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time. It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created.”
Obvs, but thanks.
Obvs, but thanks.
Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Usel...
A Microsoft executive admitted that AI companies like itself were plundering websites without giving them in return.
futurism.com
September 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time. It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created.”
Obvs, but thanks.
Obvs, but thanks.
Reposted by Shannon Vallor
There is a latent human anxiety about being kicked off the top of the food chain that seems to be stronger than the anxiety that we might destroy ourselves directly. So now we have abject terror about AI for the wrong reasons alongside complacency about the damage caused by humans.
September 19, 2026 at 7:06 PM
There is a latent human anxiety about being kicked off the top of the food chain that seems to be stronger than the anxiety that we might destroy ourselves directly. So now we have abject terror about AI for the wrong reasons alongside complacency about the damage caused by humans.
Reposted by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Watching the AI doomer panic the last two weeks and I'm struck by all the strident certainty on display about a subject with little transparency and not very much certainty. I wrote about treating AI as an unexceptional crisis and what that involves. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
September 19, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Watching the AI doomer panic the last two weeks and I'm struck by all the strident certainty on display about a subject with little transparency and not very much certainty. I wrote about treating AI as an unexceptional crisis and what that involves. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Reposted by Robert B. Reich
What’s really behind the AI panic?
Do Big Tech execs actually want to be regulated — or just rig the rules in their favor?
And what about the money AI companies are pumping into the midterms?
@rbreich.bsky.social is back to discuss it all on a new Coffee Klatch.
Do Big Tech execs actually want to be regulated — or just rig the rules in their favor?
And what about the money AI companies are pumping into the midterms?
@rbreich.bsky.social is back to discuss it all on a new Coffee Klatch.
What’s Behind the AI Panic? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
What’s behind the AI doomerism?What’s up with Trump’s obsession with the Kennedy Center?And what does the Macklemore sto
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September 19, 2026 at 6:16 PM
What’s really behind the AI panic?
Do Big Tech execs actually want to be regulated — or just rig the rules in their favor?
And what about the money AI companies are pumping into the midterms?
@rbreich.bsky.social is back to discuss it all on a new Coffee Klatch.
Do Big Tech execs actually want to be regulated — or just rig the rules in their favor?
And what about the money AI companies are pumping into the midterms?
@rbreich.bsky.social is back to discuss it all on a new Coffee Klatch.
This is way more in the realm of civilization’s downfall than sentience.
“As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, top Microsoft figures, including CEO Satya Nadella, admitted that their AI models are basically stealing content from media companies while providing virtually nothing in return, creating a “doom loop” that will swallow the web.”
Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Usel...
A Microsoft executive admitted that AI companies like itself were plundering websites without giving them in return.
futurism.com
September 19, 2026 at 6:12 PM
This is way more in the realm of civilization’s downfall than sentience.
This is all dangerously irresponsible
President Trump says he is forming an “AI Force,” modeled after the Space Force, and will soon appoint an AI “czar.” Trump said his administration will not “hinder or stifle” AI growth, saying the technology could eventually account for as much as 25% of U.S. GDP.
September 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM
This is all dangerously irresponsible
Reposted by Bessma Momani, McKenzie Wark, Sarah Roberts
“As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, top Microsoft figures, including CEO Satya Nadella, admitted that their AI models are basically stealing content from media companies while providing virtually nothing in return, creating a “doom loop” that will swallow the web.”
Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Usel...
A Microsoft executive admitted that AI companies like itself were plundering websites without giving them in return.
futurism.com
September 19, 2026 at 5:34 PM
“As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, top Microsoft figures, including CEO Satya Nadella, admitted that their AI models are basically stealing content from media companies while providing virtually nothing in return, creating a “doom loop” that will swallow the web.”
by Simon Lester
Presumably the main focus of the AI Force and the AI Czar will be fighting any efforts to regulate AI.
President Trump says he is forming an “AI Force,” modeled after the Space Force, and will soon appoint an AI “czar.” Trump said his administration will not “hinder or stifle” AI growth, saying the technology could eventually account for as much as 25% of U.S. GDP.
September 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Presumably the main focus of the AI Force and the AI Czar will be fighting any efforts to regulate AI.
To be clear, some are talking about them. I absolutely know that and I amplify them!
But the breathless headlines about AI circling the world that everybody’s talking about? We don’t see the same visibility about risks of climate, nature, pollution, and fossil fuels. Yet they’re already happening.
But the breathless headlines about AI circling the world that everybody’s talking about? We don’t see the same visibility about risks of climate, nature, pollution, and fossil fuels. Yet they’re already happening.
September 19, 2026 at 5:18 PM
To be clear, some are talking about them. I absolutely know that and I amplify them!
But the breathless headlines about AI circling the world that everybody’s talking about? We don’t see the same visibility about risks of climate, nature, pollution, and fossil fuels. Yet they’re already happening.
But the breathless headlines about AI circling the world that everybody’s talking about? We don’t see the same visibility about risks of climate, nature, pollution, and fossil fuels. Yet they’re already happening.