Will the AI bubble burst?

‘Is it a bubble?’ John Lanchester asked in a recent LRB of the colossal amounts of money pouring into AI firms. ‘Of course it’s a bubble. The salient questions are how we got here, and what happens next.’ On this episode of the podcast, John joins Thomas Jones to discuss some possible answers to those questions. They talk about the history of companies such as Nvidia and OpenAI, the reasons ‘artificial intelligence’ is a misnomer, the harms that large language models can cause and why you shouldn’t rely on them for advice in the kitchen. From the LRB

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Will the AI bubble burst? is an episode from The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books.

This episode is 54:58 long.

This episode was published on Jan 7, 2026.

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