AI: When the Bubble Bursts

Will the technology companies, and their shareholders, absorb responsibility, act with maturity, offer guidance, or exercise restraint. I doubt it. There is no leadership here, only a sustained sprint for more cash.

When the AI bubble bursts, expect thousands of reflexive startups to follow. Not to repair damage or learn anything, but to capitalise on collapse in the way commercial systems always do: by seeking more leverage, more blind extraction, more unsustainable self-congratulatory performance layered over fresh wreckage.

I do not know how this resolves for everyone. I am fairly sure it resolves badly. For all of us, but most sharply for those already marginalised, exploited, disaffected, alienated, and isolated.