What Next: TBD | Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting?

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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We’ve been told that artificial intelligence can write, code, generate images—it can do everything…except feasibly turn a profit. But investing in A.I. has nevertheless become a pillar of the U.S. economy. Where is this leading us? Guest: Ed Zitron, author of the newsletter Where’s Your Ed At and host of the podcast Better Offline. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's the truth about AI.
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0:27.8	slash UK slash AI for people. Okay everyone, so look at the numbers from Q1 and you'll see that there's
0:33.1	sharp... Alex? Oh, I think you're frozen. And that's why it's crucial that we mean.
0:39.1	E, that sounded important.
0:41.2	Because if we don't act now...
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0:55.2	And he's back.
0:56.6	So I hope that was all clear.
0:57.9	To verify I see e.cote.uk slash claims.
1:05.2	In case you were wondering, it is perfectly fine with Ed Zittron if you call him an AI hater.
1:11.7	I think so. I think considering I wrote a haters guide, and when you type
1:15.7	haters guide into Google, it's one of the top two links, the thing I wrote.
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