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The AI boom will pull back, warns former SEC chair Gary Gensler
On this episode of "Bloomberg Surveillance," professor of the practice Gary Gensler said history suggests today's AI investment boom will not continue indefinitely. He's expecting some form of slowdown or reversal within the next 18 to 30 months and said mounting debt could determine how disruptive that correction becomes. Gensler also weighed in on interest rates, monetary policy, financial stability, and the possibility that the U.S. has overbuilt AI infrastructure.
MIT's Sinan Aral on Anthropic IPO: Enterprise is key to its market success
Professor Sinan Aral joined "Squawk Box" to discuss the impending Anthropic IPO, the state of the AI IPO pipeline, and more.
As energy costs soar, Healey has embraced an 'all-of-the-above' approach — alienating some climate activists
Professor Catherine Wolfram said getting natural gas into Massachusetts is crucial to address winter shortages. "Clean energy will help us break the dependence on these volatile fossil fuels, but it's going to take a while for clean energy projects to get built and for relief to show up," Wolfram said. She added that at times, "it's just not worth dying on the sword for a clean energy program in the state of Massachusetts, when climate change is really a world problem."
AI is already changing your brain. Here's what to look out for.
Professor Eric So said: "When you start to use AI, what happens is that you lose touch with the act that typically helps maintain and build skill sets. This notion of 'use it or lose it' applies not just to our muscles, but also to many of our cognitive functions."
Saudi Arabia wants to send 10 million barrels of oil a day around Hormuz. A former Treasury official says it may barely move prices
"If — and this is a big if — the Saudis can increase pipeline flow to 10 million barrels per day, it will put about 2% more oil into the global marketplace," said visiting professor Gilbert Metcalf. "That could lower prices a bit, but there's a lot of uncertainty here. The pipeline is vulnerable to drone and missile attacks, as is much of the Saudi petroleum infrastructure. And it's not entirely clear that there is available refinery capacity to process the oil."
Should you let a chatbot manage your money?
According to research by associate professor Taha Choukhmane, AI tools generally give pretty good financial advice. That advice gets better as people become more practiced in asking the right questions. "We were actually quite surprised that relative to the status quo, the average American would be better off if they were to follow the advice," Choukhmane said. But he added a caveat: "Just following the advice without understanding the advice puts you at risk of not fully understanding the risk."