{"id":21607,"date":"2026-01-17T12:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/we-could-hit-a-wall-why-trillions-of-dollars-of-risk-is-no-guarantee-of-ai-reward\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:38:05","slug":"we-could-hit-a-wall-why-trillions-of-dollars-of-risk-is-no-guarantee-of-ai-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/we-could-hit-a-wall-why-trillions-of-dollars-of-risk-is-no-guarantee-of-ai-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We could hit a wall\u2019: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the \u2018godfathers\u2019 of modern AI<\/p>\n

Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty \u2013 or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the answer.<\/p>\n

The figures are staggering: an estimated $2.9tn (\u00a32.2tn) being spent on datacentres<\/a>, the central nervous systems of AI tools; the more than $4tn stock market capitalisation of Nvidia, the company that makes the chips powering cutting-edge AI systems; and the $100m signing-on bonuses offered by Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta to top engineers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

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\nProgress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the \u2018godfathers\u2019 of modern AI
\nWill the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty \u2013 or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the answer.
\nThe figures are staggering: an estimated $2.9tn (\u00a32.2tn) being spent on datacentres, the central nervous systems of AI tools; the more than $4tn stock market capitalisation of Nvidia, the company that makes the chips powering cutting-edge AI systems; and the $100m signing-on bonuses offered by Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta to top engineers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the \u2018godfathers\u2019 of modern AI Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty \u2013 or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the …<\/p>\n

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