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Azeem Azhar and Kenneth Cukier: If This Is an AI Bubble, What Comes Next?

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Entrepreneur and futurist Azeem Azhar pointed out in conversation with The Economist’s Kenneth Cukier that roughly a billion people now use tools such as ChatGPT. But according to Edelman’s Trust Barometer, the majority of respondents in the US and UK are pessimistic about the impact AI is having on people and society. That division is reflected in the opinions of whether the market is in the midst of an AI bubble.

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