{"id":287545,"date":"2025-10-16T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ai-boom-or-bubble-why-economists-fear-a-global-meltdown\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:00:11","slug":"ai-boom-or-bubble-why-economists-fear-a-global-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ai-boom-or-bubble-why-economists-fear-a-global-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom or bubble? why economists fear a global meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/OG57rWI7o4o\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"AI boom or bubble? why economists fear a global meltdown\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OG57rWI7o4o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>With the IMF warning that we\u2019re in an AI bubble that could be worse than the dot-com crash if it bursts \u2014 and even OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman admitting the market is \u201ckind of bubbly\u201d \u2014 what happens to the global economy if the AI boom implodes?<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Are we witnessing the next dot-com bust, or just the growing pains of a genuine technological revolution?<\/p>\n<p>To discuss it all on the latest episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined from Silicon Valley by entrepreneur, author and futurist Jerry Kaplan, and from the World Bank Group annual meeting in Washington by our Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the IMF warning that we\u2019re in an AI bubble that could be worse than the dot-com crash if it bursts \u2014 and even OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman admitting the market is \u201ckind of bubbly\u201d \u2014 what happens to the global economy if the AI boom implodes? 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