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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting?

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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.


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0:00.0

Hi, this is Ava from Vanta.

0:02.0

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0:07.0

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0:10.0

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0:30.7

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0:37.0

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0:39.0

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0:44.7

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0:50.4

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0:57.2

Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people.

1:05.7

In case you were wondering, it is perfectly fine with Ed Zittron if you call him an AI hater.

1:12.2

I think so. I think considering I wrote a haters guide, and when you type

1:16.3

haters guide into Google, it's one of the top two links, the thing I wrote.

1:22.9

Ed writes the newsletter, Where's Your Ed at? And has a podcast called Better Offline.

1:28.8

He's a PR guy, but for the last few years, has been really making a name for himself

1:33.0

as someone who dislikes generative AI, especially large language models.

1:39.2

They are economically not feasible.

1:41.4

They require stealing from millions of people.

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