Is there an AI bubble? Financial institutions sound a warning

LONDON (AP) — Lingering doubts about the economic promise of artificial intelligence technology are starting to get the attention of financial institutions that raised warning flags this week about an AI investment bubble. Officials at the Bank of England on Wednesday flagged the growing risk that tech stock prices pumped up by the AI boom could burst. “The risk of a sharp market correction has increased,” the U.K. central bank said. The head of the International Monetary Fund raised a similar alarm hours after the Bank of England’s report. Global stock prices have been surging, fired up by “optimism about the productivity-enhancing potential of AI,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said. But financial conditions could “turn abruptly,” she warned in a speech ahead of the organization’s annual meeting next week in Washington. “Bubbles obviously are never very easy to identify, but we can see there are a few potential symptoms of a bubble in the current situation,” said Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics. Those symptoms include rapid growth in techWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times