“Opinion | I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse. - The New York Times”

https://archive.ph/m7jxQ

If anything, this downplays the risks as it seems to assume that there has to be something to "AI" to warrant calling it a "boom".

Not a financial analyst or professional predictor of things but it strikes me that there are quite a few things lining up to potentially make up a Very Bad Time™ for all of us:

- Energy crisis
- Gas crisis
- Fertiliser crisis
- Semiconductor shortage (because of the energy and Helium shortages)
- Plastics shortage
- Food price inflation
- Drugs shortage
- Private debt crisis
- "AI" stock market bubble
- Housing bubble leading to crisis
...

@baldur oof. Can you do a happy path scenario off the top of your head as well?
@BuschnicK Renewable energy should get a massive boost worldwide from all of this.