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An AI bubble could drive real progress while investors lose money — Thorsten Hens

Just interviewed Thorsten Hens, professor of financial economics at the University of Zurich, and we got into an argument I thought was interesting for the AI discussion: speculative bubbles can help drive technological progress, even when plenty of the people funding them lose money. His argument…

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  1. 2026-09-19 12:37 · r/artificial
    An AI bubble could drive real progress while investors lose money — Thorsten Hens

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