{"id":471057,"date":"2025-10-03T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:22:12","slug":"ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471057\/","title":{"rendered":"AI in an &#8216;industrial bubble&#8217; but society to benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks with John Elkann, CEO of Exor and chairman of Ferrari at Italian Tech Week on October 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Arjun Kharpal | CNBC<\/p>\n<p>TURIN, Italy \u2014 Artificial intelligence is currently in an &#8220;industrial bubble&#8221; but the technology is &#8220;real&#8221; and will bring big benefits to society, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> Founder Jeff Bezos said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The term bubble usually refers to a period of inflated stock prices or valuations of companies that have disconnected from the fundamentals of a business. One of the most famous bubbles that burst was the 2000 dotcom crash where the value of internet companies plummeted.<\/p>\n<p>Exor CEO<strong> <\/strong>John Elkann asked Bezos on stage at Italian Tech Week in Turin, Italy whether there were signs that the current AI industry is in bubble.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a kind of industrial bubble,&#8221; the Amazon founder said.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos laid out some of the key characteristics of bubbles, noting that when they happen, stock prices are &#8220;disconnected from the fundamentals&#8221; of a business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second thing that happens is that people get very excited like they are today about artificial intelligence,&#8221; Bezos added.<\/p>\n<p>During bubbles, every experiment or idea gets funded, he told the audience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good ideas and the bad ideas.\u00a0And investors have a hard time in the middle of this excitement, distinguishing between the good ideas and the bad ideas. And that&#8217;s also probably happening today,&#8221; Bezos said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that doesn&#8217;t mean anything that is happening isn&#8217;t real. AI is real, and it is going to change every industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a breaking news story. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks with John Elkann, CEO of Exor and chairman of Ferrari at Italian Tech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,20955,1942,3083,3085,2199,12767,16653,53,156888,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-471057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amazon-com-inc","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-breaking-news-technology","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-jeff-bezos","15":"tag-john-elkann","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-turin","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115310214710538080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}