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  1. 0:00It finally happened. The AI bubble
  2. 0:02burst. If you have any money in the
  3. 0:04stock market or if you've ever used AI,
  4. 0:06you're going to want to hear this.
  5. 0:07>> The AI bubble is not going to burst. It
  6. 0:10already has.
  7. 0:11>> The two most popular indexes of the US
  8. 0:13stock market are the S&P 500 and the Dow
  9. 0:16Jones. They both try to broadly capture
  10. 0:18the US economy, but the biggest
  11. 0:20difference is that the S&P 500 has a lot
  12. 0:23more tech and AI stocks. Over the past
  13. 0:26few months, the Dow Jones has continued
  14. 0:28to rise, while the AI and tech exposed
  15. 0:31S&P has actually gone down. That should
  16. 0:34have been our first warning sign that
  17. 0:35something was wrong. The S&P went down
  18. 0:37because tech stocks did so badly that
  19. 0:40they erased the gains made by every
  20. 0:42other kind of stock in the index. The
  21. 0:44next major warning was that for the
  22. 0:46first time in Google's 20year history as
  23. 0:49a company, they lost money. In their
  24. 0:51last earnings report, they posted a
  25. 0:53negative cash flow of $6 billion.
  26. 0:57>> I cannot overemphasize how
  27. 0:59earthshattering this is because if
  28. 1:00Google can't make money on AI, nobody
  29. 1:03can. But also, this whole thing was just
  30. 1:05inevitable because it was just very
  31. 1:08basic math. As of this recording, $2.4
  32. 1:10trillion has been spent on AI
  33. 1:13collectively. And of all of the AI
  34. 1:16companies, do you know how much profit
  35. 1:18they have made off of that $2.4 4
  36. 1:20trillion,
  37. 1:22$50 billion. Or in other words, AI has
  38. 1:26collectively lost $2.35 trillion. So
  39. 1:30yeah, the AI bubble has already burst.
  40. 1:32The only reason that we're not treating
  41. 1:34it like it already burst is because all
  42. 1:36of these companies that are basically
  43. 1:38passing the same couple billion dollars
  44. 1:40between each other to try to keep this
  45. 1:42whole machine running are pretending
  46. 1:44that the bubble didn't burst. because
  47. 1:46they know that the minute it is common
  48. 1:47knowledge the bubble burst, they will
  49. 1:50all go out of business. Open AAI will go
  50. 1:52out of business. Anthropic will go out
  51. 1:54of business. Grock will probably get
  52. 1:56absorbed into one of Elon's other weird
  53. 1:58companies and then slowly killed off.
  54. 2:00And you're probably going to see a giant
  55. 2:01overhaul and deprioritization of Gemini
  56. 2:04from Google in like the next year or
  57. 2:06two. In fact, in some ways, you're
  58. 2:07already seeing it because Google just
  59. 2:08recently changed all their enterprise
  60. 2:10plans to be way less valuable. And the
  61. 2:13last domino to fall, of course, will be
  62. 2:15Nvidia because Nvidia is the only one
  63. 2:17that's actually making money on this
  64. 2:19whole thing. And eventually, when all of
  65. 2:20the companies that thought they were
  66. 2:22going to make money on this whole thing
  67. 2:23by giving money to Nvidia, go under,
  68. 2:26Nvidia will go under, too.
  69. 2:27>> But then the big moment came, the moment
  70. 2:29so many people have been warning about
  71. 2:31for years now. The Korean version of the
  72. 2:33Dow Jones, the index that measures how
  73. 2:35the entire stock market is performing,
  74. 2:37is called the Kosby. Over the past 20
  75. 2:39years, the Kosby has seen extremely slow
  76. 2:42growth on the rate of 2 to 3% a year.
  77. 2:44But in just the past year, the Kosby
  78. 2:46shot up 272%.
  79. 2:50For context, in the same period, the
  80. 2:52American Dow Jones went up 17%. Korea
  81. 2:55clearly pulled ahead of us in the AI
  82. 2:56bubble. And the bigger they come, the
  83. 2:58harder they fall less than one week ago.
  84. 3:01On July 23rd, the Korean AI bubble
  85. 3:04burst. their entire stock market
  86. 3:06collapsed almost 40% and it's continuing
  87. 3:09to fall as I'm recording this video. In
  88. 3:11Korea, just like in America, a lot of
  89. 3:13investors invest on margin, meaning they
  90. 3:15invest with money they don't have. The
  91. 3:17bank will match them dollar for dollar,
  92. 3:19sometimes $2 for every dollar they have.
  93. 3:21That if you have $10,000 you can invest,
  94. 3:23the bank will give you another 10,000 of
  95. 3:25borrowed money to invest, sometimes
  96. 3:27another $20,000 of money to invest. Now,
  97. 3:30you have to understand this because the
  98. 3:31Korean stock market fell so
  99. 3:33precipitously. 1.2 million Korean
  100. 3:37households lost so much money that they
  101. 3:40no longer had the original amount of
  102. 3:42money that qualified them for the loan
  103. 3:44in the first place. So, let me just
  104. 3:46illustrate this. Let's say you have
  105. 3:47$10,000 and you invested in the co-spe
  106. 3:49and the bank gives you an additional
  107. 3:51$10,000 to invest as well. Then your
  108. 3:53entire investment goes up 50%. Now
  109. 3:55you've gained $5,000 of your money and
  110. 3:58$5,000 of the bank's money. Well, this
  111. 3:59stock market collapsed so hard that not
  112. 4:01only did investors lose all the money
  113. 4:03they borrowed, but they lost so much of
  114. 4:05their original capital that the bank
  115. 4:07said, "You no longer have enough money
  116. 4:09to qualify for that extra $10,000 we
  117. 4:12gave you." So, if they started with
  118. 4:13$10,000, they lost their original
  119. 4:1510,000, but now with a net worth of
  120. 4:17zero, they're on the hook to pay back
  121. 4:20the 10,000 they borrowed. 1.2 2 million
  122. 4:22households, almost a 20th of the entire
  123. 4:25Korean working population, woke up to a
  124. 4:28message saying their account was shut
  125. 4:29down. You lost it all. Older Koreans
  126. 4:32lost their entire life savings. People
  127. 4:34started filing for divorce. People
  128. 4:35started pulling their kids out of
  129. 4:37school. This is what uh local Koreans
  130. 4:39here in Korea are sharing on social
  131. 4:40media. It's actually pretty funny when
  132. 4:42you see this stuff. So, basically, um
  133. 4:44this is like, you know, a guy asking his
  134. 4:46friend, "Hey, what's going on?" and uh
  135. 4:48the sheets all you know wet from crying
  136. 4:51and they they show the headlines of the
  137. 4:52market and stuff like that. Um people
  138. 4:54have a sense of humor about this stuff.
  139. 4:55Someone's posting that, you know, the
  140. 4:57market's down 10%, some stocks are down
  141. 4:5912%, you know, etc. And that's his lunch
  142. 5:02for the day. All you can afford is rice
  143. 5:03and dried seaweed.
  144. 5:07[screaming]
  145. 5:08>> Here's another one. This is more of a
  146. 5:10joke where you're trying to um do CPR on
  147. 5:13the stock market, right? So, uh, first
  148. 5:15you're trying to give it mouth to mouth
  149. 5:16to get the, uh, stock to go up. Now
  150. 5:18you're giving the [laughter] like a CVR
  151. 5:20form. It's joke, but essentially so many
  152. 5:23people are in the markets right now.
  153. 5:24Everyone's watching it, so they're
  154. 5:25putting all these sort of things on
  155. 5:26here. Uh, then you go to the uh, the
  156. 5:28Kosby building and start praying for it
  157. 5:30to go up.
  158. 5:31>> The Kosby is supposed to represent the
  159. 5:32entire Korean economy. But just like in
  160. 5:34America, the index was over 50%
  161. 5:38AI and tech stocks. 42% of the entire
  162. 5:41index was just Samsung, a company
  163. 5:43heavily investing in AI. So when Samsung
  164. 5:46and a couple other companies like
  165. 5:47Broadcom and Micron posted weaker
  166. 5:49financials than people were hoping for,
  167. 5:51people realized this is not going our
  168. 5:53way and they started selling stocks and
  169. 5:56then more people started selling it and
  170. 5:57then it became an entire run and then a
  171. 5:59crash. Even the CEO of Micron sold $37
  172. 6:02million of his own stock. If the Koreans
  173. 6:04got out and the CEOs are getting out,
  174. 6:06shouldn't we Americans take notice?
  175. 6:08Because one of the few reasons the Kosby
  176. 6:10crashed more than American indexes have
  177. 6:11is because they had so much of a higher
  178. 6:13AI tech concentration. But that doesn't
  179. 6:15mean we're immune. A lot of people think
  180. 6:17we're next because we're doing
  181. 6:18everything that South Korea did. We're
  182. 6:20just a few steps behind. We're literally
  183. 6:22putting our money in the same companies
  184. 6:24South Korea did. But the stakes are so
  185. 6:26much higher for a US crash. For one
  186. 6:27reason, the entire world economy depends
  187. 6:29on the US economy. But another reason is
  188. 6:31that the US has literally never had more
  189. 6:34of its economy dependent on the stock
  190. 6:36market than today. There's more money
  191. 6:38and more people invested in the stock
  192. 6:40market now than at any point in history.
  193. 6:42Literally, most Americans own part of
  194. 6:44the stock market. In fact, analysts
  195. 6:46report that the AI investment bubble is
  196. 6:4917 times larger than the.com bubble and
  197. 6:53four times larger than the 2008 mortgage
  198. 6:55crisis. When what happened in South
  199. 6:57Korea happens here, it will destroy the
  200. 7:00world economy. And what's even more
  201. 7:02insidious is the exact investment
  202. 7:04patterns that took down Korea are
  203. 7:06happening in the US. Just like in the
  204. 7:08US, housing became totally unaffordable
  205. 7:11in Korea. So, Korean young people who
  206. 7:13felt like they had nothing to lose
  207. 7:14started gambling in the stock market
  208. 7:16because they figured they're not going
  209. 7:17to get rich by working a job. This gave
  210. 7:19AI companies tons of extra money that
  211. 7:22they couldn't actually deliver on. And
  212. 7:23remember how we established that the
  213. 7:24Koreans were borrowing money? so they
  214. 7:26could invest even more. We're doing that
  215. 7:28in the US. Millions of Americans are
  216. 7:30invested in the stock market not only
  217. 7:32with their own money, but with borrowed
  218. 7:34money. And they're doing it to chase a
  219. 7:35higher return. Think about it. If the
  220. 7:37stock market goes up 1%, your money goes
  221. 7:40up 1%. But if you double the amount of
  222. 7:42money you have invested thanks to a
  223. 7:44loan, when the stock market goes up 1%,
  224. 7:46your money goes up 2%. And that sounds
  225. 7:48wonderful until the AI bubble bursts. If
  226. 7:51the AI bubble bursts and goes down 20%.
  227. 7:53Then you'll lose more than 40%. Or 60%
  228. 7:56if you're triply leveraged. And if the
  229. 7:58AI bubble goes down just a third and you
  230. 8:00have 3x leverage, you'll lose every
  231. 8:03dollar you have. It already happened to
  232. 8:06thousands in Korea. But now I want to
  233. 8:08show you the most sobering statistic
  234. 8:10about the entire situation. At its peak,
  235. 8:13the South Korean economy had only 1.3%
  236. 8:17in margin investing, meaning borrowed
  237. 8:19investing. In the US today, it's 4.7%.
  238. 8:23It's actually higher than that because
  239. 8:24that doesn't count leveraged mutual
  240. 8:26funds or leveraged stock options. The
  241. 8:29figure before the dotcom bubble was 2%.
  242. 8:31Before the housing crisis, it was 2.3%.
  243. 8:34Look, is the US a more stable country
  244. 8:36than South Korea? Yes. But how far do we
  245. 8:38want to push that? We have 50 times the
  246. 8:40amount of borrowed money in the stock
  247. 8:42market than Korea ever did. The only
  248. 8:44reason the US economy is doing so well
  249. 8:46right now is because of the magnificent
  250. 8:48seven. seven big tech companies who are
  251. 8:50spending trillions of dollars on AI and
  252. 8:52data centers. Those seven companies
  253. 8:55alone are more than a third of the S&P
  254. 8:57500. S&P 500, more like S&P 7. If anyone
  255. 9:00tries to tell you that the AI bubble is
  256. 9:02not an AI bubble, just show them the new
  257. 9:04MIT article that shows that 95% of
  258. 9:07businesses who implemented generative AI
  259. 9:09pilots are failures. and then show them
  260. 9:12that the Google CEO recently said in an
  261. 9:15exclusive interview that their search
  262. 9:17engine is more accurate than their AI
  263. 9:19systems and that you shouldn't trust
  264. 9:21these things blindly. And then show them
  265. 9:24that Nvidia still hasn't paid Open AI
  266. 9:27for their hundred billion dollar deal
  267. 9:29because Nvidia says that they wrote a
  268. 9:31letter to intend to pay, not an actual
  269. 9:34deal. Mr. IRS agent, I never agreed to
  270. 9:36pay my taxes. I agreed to intend to pay
  271. 9:38my taxes.
  272. 9:40>> [laughter]
  273. 9:41>> I'm going try it. And at this point, you
  274. 9:43must be thinking, Casey, surely these
  275. 9:45tech billionaires have a plan. Surely,
  276. 9:47we're not trusting the entire US and
  277. 9:49world economy to them based on vibes.
  278. 9:52Right. Right.
  279. 9:54>> We have no current plans to make
  280. 9:55revenue. We have no idea how we may one
  281. 9:57day generate revenue. Um we have made a
  282. 10:00soft promise to investors that once
  283. 10:02we've built this sort of generally
  284. 10:04intelligent system um basically we will
  285. 10:07ask it to figure out a way to generate
  286. 10:09an investment return for you.
  287. 10:13What is this timeline? Bro said our plan
  288. 10:15to monetize AI is to ask AI. Holy hell.
  289. 10:20Everybody was laughing and he's like why
  290. 10:22are you laughing? I have no plan.
  291. 10:24>> I have no plan. AI is going to crash and
  292. 10:26Sam Alman's going to go on chat GBT
  293. 10:28like, "Hey, uh, how do I fix this?"
  294. 10:30>> In fact, OpenAI was planning on becoming
  295. 10:33a publicly traded company as early as
  296. 10:35September and asking for a $1 trillion
  297. 10:38valuation, even though their annual
  298. 10:40expenses were 26 billion and their
  299. 10:43annual revenue was only 13 billion. So
  300. 10:45when OpenAI's CFO warned Sam Alman those
  301. 10:49numbers could not possibly justify a $1
  302. 10:52trillion IPO, do you know what he did?
  303. 10:55He stopped talking to her. He stopped
  304. 10:57talking to his company's CFO. He
  305. 11:00excluded her from financial meetings. He
  306. 11:02excluded the chief FINANCIAL OFFICER
  307. 11:04FROM FINANCIAL MEETINGS. I'm sure this
  308. 11:06guy is cool-headed enough to handle the
  309. 11:08entire US economy responsibly. Only 16%
  310. 11:11of households with internet pay for any
  311. 11:13kind of AI. And IBM reported that only
  312. 11:1625% of AI initiatives actually delivered
  313. 11:19the return on investment they promised.
  314. 11:21And where AI is productive is in very
  315. 11:24narrow circumstances. AI benefited
  316. 11:27companies financially in writing code
  317. 11:29and customer support automation and lost
  318. 11:32them money on literally everything else
  319. 11:34because all AI does is compile data and
  320. 11:38streamline it. It makes sense that it
  321. 11:39can program well, but it can't think. It
  322. 11:42can't actually be creative. It's
  323. 11:43philosophically impossible. Sorry,
  324. 11:45Richard Dawkins. But AI companies have
  325. 11:47hyped saying that AI will be profitable
  326. 11:49in every domain. And that's how they
  327. 11:51raised so much money. But now people are
  328. 11:53realizing they bought a pig in a poke.
  329. 11:56In medieval Europe, pigs were a hot
  330. 11:57commodity. Unscrupulous merchants would
  331. 12:00sell their finest young pigs to a poor
  332. 12:02farmer in a bag called a poke. However,
  333. 12:05when the farmer got home, he would
  334. 12:06realize that instead of a pig, the
  335. 12:08merchant just sold him a dead cat. And
  336. 12:11now when referring to a product that was
  337. 12:13sold as much more valuable than it
  338. 12:15really is, we call it a pig and a poke.
  339. 12:18These AI stocks are not the pig we were
  340. 12:20promised. I guess that makes us the
  341. 12:22farmers. At the very end of last year,
  342. 12:24the CFO of Meta said there was so much
  343. 12:26demand for their AI products, there's no
  344. 12:28way they could possibly build enough
  345. 12:30data centers. Now, just a few months
  346. 12:32later, Meta is selling those very same
  347. 12:35data centers to other AI companies just
  348. 12:38so they can stay solvent. There's not
  349. 12:40enough demand for Grock either. So Elon
  350. 12:42Musk is having to sell his data centers.
  351. 12:44All this decreased demand has forced
  352. 12:46American AI companies to raise their
  353. 12:48prices. So now it's creating an even
  354. 12:51worse situation because companies who
  355. 12:52still use AI are switching to the
  356. 12:54cheaper Chinese AI programs. Airbnb,
  357. 12:57Door Dash, Coinbase, Uber, Spotify have
  358. 13:00all switched from American AI companies
  359. 13:02to Chinese ones. In fact, Pizza Hut is
  360. 13:05suing the AI company they used because
  361. 13:07it was so unprofitable. It increased
  362. 13:09weight times, lowered efficiency, and
  363. 13:12cost them $100 million. But beyond all
  364. 13:15these failing AI metrics, there are two
  365. 13:18additional factors accelerating the
  366. 13:20burst of the AI bubble. The first is the
  367. 13:22public backlash against AI. Over $65
  368. 13:25billion in data center projects have
  369. 13:27been stopped because of local
  370. 13:29opposition. And I like to think we
  371. 13:31played a role in that. I'm not against
  372. 13:32data centers in a vacuum, but you don't
  373. 13:34get to destroy a town just to put one
  374. 13:36wherever you want. This woman turned
  375. 13:38down literally $26 million to give up
  376. 13:42her family farm for a data set. Her
  377. 13:45whole family lived on that land for
  378. 13:46generations and she's not going to give
  379. 13:48it up to Mark Zuckerberg. Someone
  380. 13:50commented, "That's a tremendous amount
  381. 13:51of money to turn down. That is
  382. 13:53generational wealth. Are you crazy?" But
  383. 13:55people rightly pointed out in the
  384. 13:56comments the real generational wealth is
  385. 13:58the land and house that her ancestors
  386. 14:01built that she still lives in and keeps
  387. 14:03alive today. I don't think Scarlett
  388. 14:05O'Hara would have sold Tara to Mark
  389. 14:07Zuckerberg for 26 million either. The
  390. 14:10second accelerant to AI's decline is AI
  391. 14:12companies running out of cash even as
  392. 14:15they're raising hundreds of billions of
  393. 14:16dollars. The CFO of OpenAI has literally
  394. 14:20asked the US government to buy a 5%
  395. 14:22share in the company. And why does she
  396. 14:24want to do that? Obviously, so the
  397. 14:26government will bail them out when they
  398. 14:27collapse. We've seen it so many times.
  399. 14:29Billionaires who want to privatize
  400. 14:31profits and socialize loss. If you want
  401. 14:33to make a successful company that's
  402. 14:35worth a billion dollars, that's awesome.
  403. 14:37But don't ask the taxpayers to subsidize
  404. 14:39it for you because we won't get the
  405. 14:40profits if the company succeeds. No one
  406. 14:42bought AI hype more than the tech CEOs
  407. 14:44themselves. And now it's costing them.
  408. 14:47Big tech literally fired 1 million
  409. 14:49people in the last couple years because
  410. 14:51they thought they'd be able to replace
  411. 14:52them with AI. And now they're scrambling
  412. 14:55to hire 90% of those jobs back because
  413. 14:58the AI failed. Ford released a statement
  414. 15:00that they are hiring back their workers
  415. 15:02after AI failed to deliver the requisite
  416. 15:05technical ability. I'll translate that.
  417. 15:07Yo, we tried to get rid of as many of
  418. 15:08you human workers as we could, but now
  419. 15:11we kind of need you. Would you come back
  420. 15:12for some free pizza? Companies that
  421. 15:14replaced people with AI are now
  422. 15:16desperately trying to get the people
  423. 15:18back. They're quickly realizing two
  424. 15:20things. AI is not free and AI is not
  425. 15:24that great at most jobs. So these
  426. 15:26companies are paying millions of dollars
  427. 15:28a month for enterprise AI and the result
  428. 15:3095% of generative AI pilots are failing
  429. 15:34to deliver returns. 29% of companies
  430. 15:36that replaced workers with AI are now
  431. 15:38rehiring those exact same roles. And 55%
  432. 15:42of execs regret replacing people with
  433. 15:44AI.
  434. 15:45>> So knowing all this, is it any surprise
  435. 15:47that US insiders are selling stocks at
  436. 15:50the fastest rate in recorded history?
  437. 15:52>> The AI bubble is about to burst because
  438. 15:55the hyperscalers, as they're called,
  439. 15:57have used up all their own cash and are
  440. 15:59now borrowing money. They are
  441. 16:01effectively net debtors at a time when
  442. 16:05they're spending huge volumes of money
  443. 16:08on data centers without having any
  444. 16:11guarantee that they're going to earn uh
  445. 16:14profits from that. And it's that worry
  446. 16:17that actually there isn't money to be
  447. 16:19made in that business which is gradually
  448. 16:21dawning on investors and that's going to
  449. 16:24be why they are going to pull away. In
  450. 16:26fact, there's already signs of people
  451. 16:28withdrawing from the AI sector because
  452. 16:30they fear that this is a bubble. It
  453. 16:33seems to be utterly inevitable. The
  454. 16:35question is only when.
  455. 16:37>> Someone commented, "Open AAI is going to
  456. 16:38be profitable soon, guys. Just you wait.
  457. 16:41Any day now.
  458. 16:43>> Any day now."
  459. 16:44>> Someone else said, "Hey, remember when
  460. 16:45NFTTS were the next big thing?" And then
  461. 16:47a bunch of people said, "I hope the AI
  462. 16:50bubble bursts. I hope it's so bad." I'd
  463. 16:52be careful of thinking like that because
  464. 16:54it could hurt the whole economy and put
  465. 16:56a lot of people into poverty, but I
  466. 16:57really get the feeling.
  467. 16:58>> What advice do you give for the average
  468. 17:00person that's looking to [music] invest
  469. 17:01their salary or their wages?
  470. 17:03>> Don't own US stocks. That's a simple
  471. 17:05strategy that you can act on.
  472. 17:07>> What about S&P 500?
  473. 17:09>> No. Really? Yeah. And if you have a big
  474. 17:11position in US [music] technology stock,
  475. 17:14my personal advice would be to sell them
  476. 17:15all.
  477. 17:16>> But I'm an investor in SpaceX.
  478. 17:17>> Good luck. SpaceX is such a fabulous BS
  479. 17:20story and we can go into that. crypto?
  480. 17:22>> No.
  481. 17:22>> Why?
  482. 17:23>> It's an unnecessary piece of nonsense
  483. 17:25that facilitates [music] nothing except
  484. 17:27criminals moving money, but they can't
  485. 17:29be seen.
  486. 17:29>> Do you think Bitcoin is going to go to
  487. 17:30zero?
  488. 17:31>> Yes, it will certainly go to zero.
  489. 17:32>> So, how many years have you spent
  490. 17:34investing?
  491. 17:34>> 60 years.
  492. 17:35>> And what's the most amount of money
  493. 17:36you've ever managed of other people's
  494. 17:38money?
  495. 17:39>> 165 billion.
  496. 17:40>> And one of the things you're famous for
  497. 17:41talking about is this idea of bubbles.
  498. 17:44>> Yes. And bubbles always occur around the
  499. 17:46very most important ideas. So, the
  500. 17:48railroads, everyone could see that it
  501. 17:50would change the world. The same with
  502. 17:51the internet and everyone wanted to put
  503. 17:52[music] their money in and so they
  504. 17:54overinvested but this is the problem
  505. 17:56eventually they buff and if you look at
  506. 17:59the great bubbles breaking of the past
  507. 18:01you find that it's followed by really
  508. 18:03tough times a miserable period for the
  509. 18:05economy and the bigger the bubble the
  510. 18:07bigger the burst and now we're in the
  511. 18:08biggest investment bubble that arguably
  512. 18:10has ever occurred AI
  513. 18:12>> are we on the verge of a collapse with
  514. 18:14AI over the coming years
  515. 18:15>> the next few days the next few weeks the
  516. 18:17[music] next few months but certainly
  517. 18:19the next few years. So if you're not
  518. 18:21someone that has a huge amount of
  519. 18:22savings, what kind of strategy should
  520. 18:24they be adopting when an economy starts
  521. 18:26to [music] get bad and there's an
  522. 18:27economic bubble collapse?
  523. 18:28>> So I would go through everything, but
  524. 18:30you will not [music] receive this advice
  525. 18:33from investment advisers because they'll
  526. 18:35lose a lot of business.
  527. 18:36>> Would you be thinking about the country
  528. 18:38you live in at this moment in time?
  529. 18:39>> Absolutely.
  530. 18:40>> Is there any countries you wouldn't live
  531. 18:41in?
  532. 18:41>> I think I have to refuse to answer this
  533. 18:44on the grounds that it might tend to
  534. 18:45incriminate me.
  535. 18:46>> Oh, okay. So you're saying don't live in
  536. 18:47the United States. I've just moved here.
  537. 18:49Why not the United States?
  538. 18:50>> It holds out too much chance that the
  539. 18:53social contract is is dissolving.
  540. 18:56>> When you say social contract, what does
  541. 18:58that mean?
  542. 18:58>> It means an agreement that I will behave
  543. 19:01in a way that helps my neighbors and
  544. 19:03society that I'm doing what people
  545. 19:05expect me to do. I'm not going to
  546. 19:07misbehave.
  547. 19:08>> And you think that's not the case here
  548. 19:09in the United States?
  549. 19:10>> I think the case here is that people are
  550. 19:12doing what they think is best for them
  551. 19:13and their family and screw everybody
  552. 19:15else. Clearly, when I arrived in
  553. 19:18America, corporations had this sense
  554. 19:20that they owed something to the
  555. 19:22community they operated in, the city
  556. 19:24they operated in. They they'd build the
  557. 19:27stadium, they'd do this, they they'd be
  558. 19:30part of the community. Now they're not.
  559. 19:33They're all in a way cold-blooded profit
  560. 19:36maximizing international enterprises.
  561. 19:38>> Yes, bubbles always form on the most
  562. 19:41important ideas. It's not that those
  563. 19:42ideas aren't important. It's not that AI
  564. 19:45isn't a big deal. People just
  565. 19:46overestimate how transformative it'll be
  566. 19:48in the short term. That's with anything,
  567. 19:50right? Like all our addictions are to
  568. 19:51things that are fundamentally good. The
  569. 19:53core of a porn addiction is the good of
  570. 19:55sex. At the core of compulsive lying is
  571. 19:57the healthy desire to be liked by your
  572. 19:59closest friends. The core of overeating
  573. 20:01is the good of eating. These seven cups
  574. 20:03represent the magnificent seven. Apple,
  575. 20:06Meta, Amazon, Google, Tesla, Microsoft,
  576. 20:09and Nvidia. Nvidia is an important one.
  577. 20:12Together, they make up almost 40% of the
  578. 20:16entire S&P. Now, let's show why people
  579. 20:18are panicking about a possible AI bubble
  580. 20:21burst. This is the money that is
  581. 20:23currently being poured into artificial
  582. 20:26intelligence by these companies. They're
  583. 20:28spending almost half a trillion dollars
  584. 20:31in things like chips, data centers,
  585. 20:33[music] infrastructure. Microsoft alone
  586. 20:35is spending nearly $80 billion this
  587. 20:38year. Meta is buying 600,000 Nvidia
  588. 20:41chips. Amazon and Google are building
  589. 20:43citiesized [music] data centers. And
  590. 20:46this that tiny cup is the amount of
  591. 20:49revenue that's actually coming in right
  592. 20:51now from all of this investment. [music]
  593. 20:53Not the hype, not the valuations, the
  594. 20:56actual revenue. [music] It's maybe
  595. 20:58somewhere around $30 to $50 billion. But
  596. 21:01to justify all of this investment, these
  597. 21:05companies have to pull in between half a
  598. 21:07trillion to $2 trillion. This is the
  599. 21:10amount of revenue that's coming in right
  600. 21:12now from AI when it needs to be able
  601. 21:15[music] to fill up this. So, what
  602. 21:18happens if this never fills up? Just
  603. 21:20kidding. I'm not going to break my
  604. 21:21glasses. Everything starts with Nvidia.
  605. 21:24They are the backbone to all of these
  606. 21:26other companies right now because
  607. 21:28[music] they produce the GPUs. If these
  608. 21:30companies start pulling back their
  609. 21:33investment into AI, that impacts Nvidia
  610. 21:36the most. If Nvidia falls, these other
  611. 21:39companies also fall and the entire
  612. 21:41market falls.
  613. 21:42>> Right? If those seven companies go down,
  614. 21:44they're taking all of us with them. But
  615. 21:46the guy who made that video made an
  616. 21:48update explaining that since he recorded
  617. 21:50that last video, the warning signs of
  618. 21:52the AI bubble bursting arrived.
  619. 21:54>> Microsoft stock actually plummeted
  620. 21:56overnight. Listen to this from the Wall
  621. 21:58Street Journal this morning. market is
  622. 22:00getting increasingly worried that this
  623. 22:02massive spending which has all been
  624. 22:03front-loaded is needing to deliver
  625. 22:06results. Now,
  626. 22:07>> here's what else happened yesterday.
  627. 22:08Norway, which has a $2.2 trillion
  628. 22:10sovereign wealth fund and they use a lot
  629. 22:12of that to invest in the United States,
  630. 22:13did something which I think is one of
  631. 22:15the first major blips. They pulled out
  632. 22:17of specific sectors in the US and they
  633. 22:19reinvested it. But here's the important
  634. 22:21part. Here's who they pulled out of.
  635. 22:22Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
  636. 22:24Remember when I said that Nvidia was the
  637. 22:26center of the AI tech bubble possibly
  638. 22:28bursting? Well, Nvidia is also the
  639. 22:31largest amount that they reallocated.
  640. 22:33And that's not the end of it. Amazon
  641. 22:34yesterday laid off 16,000 employees at
  642. 22:37the corporate level. Now, this was
  643. 22:39announced back in November when they
  644. 22:41laid off 14,000. So, they were just
  645. 22:42completing the job yesterday. But why
  646. 22:44did they lay people off? Because they
  647. 22:46need AI to replace humans. Are you still
  648. 22:49with me? Because I'm about to make it
  649. 22:50even worse. Overnight, Reuters reported
  650. 22:53that Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft are
  651. 22:55in talks to invest up to $60 billion
  652. 22:58into Open AI. These companies are
  653. 23:00literally investing in each other to try
  654. 23:03and prevent this bubble from bursting.
  655. 23:05>> Exactly. They need to deliver results
  656. 23:07now.
  657. 23:08>> Today might be the beginning of the AI
  658. 23:09bubble popping. Microsoft saw half a
  659. 23:12trillion dollars vanish in a single
  660. 23:13morning. That is the worst collapse that
  661. 23:15they've seen since the 2020 pandemic.
  662. 23:17This is how terrified investors are.
  663. 23:19Microsoft said that their cloud revenue
  664. 23:20dropped from 40% to 39%. That small 1%
  665. 23:24difference just cost them the entirety
  666. 23:26of Netflix's value. Microsoft, on the
  667. 23:28other hand, just told investors that 45%
  668. 23:30of its future cloud revenue is dependent
  669. 23:32on Open AI, a company that has 1
  670. 23:34trillion in future commitments, but only
  671. 23:3620 billion in revenue. Wall Street is
  672. 23:38fed up with AI's potential and has
  673. 23:39started caring about cold, hard cash.
  674. 23:41Microsoft just dumped 37 billion into AI
  675. 23:44chips and data centers in 3 months.
  676. 23:46They're spending like there's no
  677. 23:47tomorrow, but the revenue isn't catching
  678. 23:49up. When a company can beat expectations
  679. 23:51and the stock tanks 12% the next day,
  680. 23:53you know that the AI hype era is over.
  681. 23:56Someone commented, "Yes, yes, let it
  682. 23:59burn." If you've ever seen the movie The
  683. 24:00Big Short, it explains how the 2008
  684. 24:02financial crisis happened. Well, this
  685. 24:04guy remade The Big Short, but about the
  686. 24:07AI bubble. These three companies are
  687. 24:09going public this year with a total
  688. 24:10market cap of $6 trillion. 6 trillion.
  689. 24:13You're too close.
  690. 24:14>> They go to eight. It's Armageddon. There
  691. 24:16literally isn't enough money in the
  692. 24:18market to support these three companies
  693. 24:19at an $8 trillion market cap. I'm
  694. 24:22talking all out stock market collapse
  695. 24:24here because everybody knows the AI
  696. 24:26bubble's about to burst, but it's making
  697. 24:28them richer than they could ever
  698. 24:29imagine.
  699. 24:30>> Completely sure that.
  700. 24:31>> Look at him. That's my wan.
  701. 24:33>> Your what?
  702. 24:34>> My wand. My wan glaciius. My gardener.
  703. 24:38>> Look at him. You see anything different
  704. 24:40about him? Look at his mustache, his
  705. 24:42sombrero. He pivoted his landscaping
  706. 24:45business to AI last month and raised
  707. 24:47$300 million from A16Z. All he did was
  708. 24:50build an AI agent to trade for him on
  709. 24:52Moon. Yes, I'm sure of the math.
  710. 24:55Actually, my name's John and I do speak
  711. 24:57English. He just likes to say I don't to
  712. 24:59make it feel more authentic. I raised
  713. 25:01$300 million to build an AI powered lawn
  714. 25:03mower. It's the future.
  715. 25:05>> Someone said biggest rugpull in human
  716. 25:07history. Even the CEO of Google is like,
  717. 25:11"Yeah, we might destroy everything."
  718. 25:13Sorry. It's also true when we go through
  719. 25:16these investment cycles. Uh you know
  720. 25:18there are moments we overshoot right
  721. 25:21collectively as an industry. We can look
  722. 25:22back at the internet right now. There
  723. 25:24was clearly a lot of uh excess
  724. 25:27investment. I expect AI to be the same.
  725. 25:29So I think it's both rational and there
  726. 25:32are there are elements of irrationality
  727. 25:34through a moment like this. No company
  728. 25:36is going to be immune including us. And
  729. 25:39this is why all these AI companies are
  730. 25:41going public now so they can raise money
  731. 25:43because they need money.
  732. 25:44>> The AI bubble is finally running out of
  733. 25:46cash. So next week it'll start taking
  734. 25:48yours. SpaceX is expected to go public
  735. 25:50on June 12th. By far the biggest IPO in
  736. 25:53history. And there's a reason they're
  737. 25:54doing it now and that the other trillion
  738. 25:56dollar AI companies are expected to
  739. 25:57quickly follow. It's the same reason
  740. 25:58Google just started selling its own
  741. 26:00stock for the first time since 2005. AI
  742. 26:02has gotten way too expensive for these
  743. 26:04private markets to fund. So they're
  744. 26:05moving to the public markets. the public
  745. 26:07markets is you. Here's what'll happen.
  746. 26:09On June 12th, SpaceX sells just a sliver
  747. 26:11of itself, about 5%, and the stock
  748. 26:13likely gets pushed up by Elon fanboys.
  749. 26:15Then about 12 days in, a switch flips. A
  750. 26:18controversial rule that the NASDAQ just
  751. 26:20changed forces SpaceX into the main
  752. 26:22stock index. And the second it's in
  753. 26:23there, every NASDAQ index fund where a
  754. 26:25lot of people saving sit is required to
  755. 26:27buy it. They'll be forced to soak up
  756. 26:29nearly half the shares available,
  757. 26:31selling your Apple, your Microsoft, or
  758. 26:32your Nvidia to pay for it. You don't get
  759. 26:34a say, right? Then SpaceX's early
  760. 26:36investors will finally be able to cash
  761. 26:38out in the biggest payday in startup
  762. 26:40history. Who is the exit liquidity? You.
  763. 26:42But that's not all. Hey. Hey. Remember
  764. 26:45when people were upset about RAM prices
  765. 26:48skyrocketing because of the RAM shortage
  766. 26:50because these companies were giving
  767. 26:52their RAM to the AI data centers and
  768. 26:55people were worried that they were going
  769. 26:56to go after other computer components.
  770. 27:00They were right. They were right. Uh,
  771. 27:02Western Digital has sold all of their
  772. 27:04hard disk drives to AI data centers. So,
  773. 27:08Western Digital has said they are
  774. 27:09completely sold out of hard disks for
  775. 27:10the year of 2026 and they are in
  776. 27:12long-term agreements for the next couple
  777. 27:15of years. And they say, well, it's not
  778. 27:17that big of a deal because only 5% of
  779. 27:19our revenue comes from hard disk sales.
  780. 27:2389% comes from cloud services. So, it's
  781. 27:26a no-brainer. So, we have hard disk
  782. 27:29drive shortage, RAM shortage, solid
  783. 27:32state shortage, and now we couple that
  784. 27:34with Jeff Bezos saying, "You don't need
  785. 27:37a PC. We'll just give you a box and you
  786. 27:39can rent a PC through the cloud from
  787. 27:43us." I know the saying. I've heard it
  788. 27:46too many times. You'll own nothing and
  789. 27:48you'll like it. I get it. But it seeing
  790. 27:51it happen in front of my eyes still
  791. 27:53elicits an emotional response for some
  792. 27:56reason. And mind you, I'm talking about
  793. 27:58just PCs right now, but this applies to
  794. 28:00everything technological. PCs, laptops,
  795. 28:02phones, anything with a screen like this
  796. 28:04that uses RAM and storage. I've said it
  797. 28:07before and I'll say it again. Bubble.
  798. 28:10It's a bubble. There's no profit so far.
  799. 28:13Nothing has been profitable. All these
  800. 28:15companies are partnering with them.
  801. 28:16They're building these mega structures.
  802. 28:18These data centers are literally
  803. 28:20creating shortages in our materials. And
  804. 28:23yet so far there is no viable method
  805. 28:25outside of putting ads in your chatbot.
  806. 28:28>> Someone said building my PC 2 years ago
  807. 28:30feels like I got the last chopper out of
  808. 28:32N.
  809. 28:32>> Why did the main guy from the big short
  810. 28:34just short Caterpillar? Cuz he's
  811. 28:36shorting lots of AI stocks. Caterpillar
  812. 28:38makes mining and construction equipment
  813. 28:40but also makes power generators which
  814. 28:41data centers have been buying. And the
  815. 28:43share price is up almost 160% in a year.
  816. 28:45Yeah. He's betting against Tesla,
  817. 28:46Nvidia, and Applied Materials too. So
  818. 28:49the AI boom is dragging all sorts of
  819. 28:50directly and loosely connected
  820. 28:52businesses up and into stretch
  821. 28:54valuations. Yes. And and now one of the
  822. 28:56main guys who saw the GFC coming is
  823. 28:58piling into short positions in
  824. 29:00anticipation of a collapse. Yes. Well,
  825. 29:04yeah. But the problem is the timing. I
  826. 29:06mean, people were saying that there was
  827. 29:06a bubble in the share market in 1986 and
  828. 29:09then it doubled and the crash didn't
  829. 29:10happen until October 1987. So, it can
  830. 29:13take a while. So, do we buy or sell? No
  831. 29:16idea. Either way, we're kind of screwed.
  832. 29:18That's right. A lot of the warning signs
  833. 29:20are here, but that doesn't mean we're
  834. 29:21going to have a recession in the next
  835. 29:22few months. It could take another year.
  836. 29:24It could take more than that. But one
  837. 29:25thing that's clear is these valuations
  838. 29:28appear unsustainable because all these
  839. 29:30companies are just passing money between
  840. 29:32each other. It almost feels like a
  841. 29:34pyramid scheme.
  842. 29:35>> Okay, so here's the full mess. Open AAI,
  843. 29:37Soft Bank, and Oracle partnered to build
  844. 29:39the $500 billion Stargate data center.
  845. 29:42Nvidia invested $30 billion in OpenAI.
  846. 29:46SoftBank invested $30 billion in OpenAI
  847. 29:48and Amazon $50 billion in OpenAI. Open
  848. 29:52AAI will need to buy 500 to600 billion
  849. 29:55worth of chips from Nvidia. Oracle
  850. 29:57bought $40 billion of chips from Nvidia.
  851. 30:00Open AAI signed a $300 billion deal with
  852. 30:03Oracle. Then OpenAI signed a $90 billion
  853. 30:05deal with AMD for rights to 10% of AMD.
  854. 30:08Coreweave, partially owned by Nvidia,
  855. 30:11rents out cloud capacity to Meta,
  856. 30:13Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and
  857. 30:16Google. Microsoft owns 27% of OpenAI, is
  858. 30:19a fifth of NVIDIA sales, and rents $30
  859. 30:21billion worth of cloud capacity to
  860. 30:23Anthropic. Google invested $3 billion
  861. 30:26and an additional $40 billion as of late
  862. 30:29April 2026 in Anthropic. Anthropic is
  863. 30:32using a million Google chips. Amazon
  864. 30:34invested eight billion into Anthropic
  865. 30:36and built Anthropic its own 11 billion
  866. 30:38data center. And even now, these deals
  867. 30:41continue to cycle around the industry.
  868. 30:43Everyone is everyone else's investor,
  869. 30:45supplier, customer, and competitor, all
  870. 30:47at the same time. It's like a group of
  871. 30:49friends passing the same $50 bill around
  872. 30:51the table and each calling it their
  873. 30:53paycheck.
  874. 30:53>> Yeah. One thing that obscures how much
  875. 30:56the AI bubble has already burst is that
  876. 30:58these companies have a very large
  877. 31:00financial stake in everybody believing
  878. 31:03the bubble has not burst. Quite frankly,
  879. 31:07THIS BUBBLE IS NOT GOING TO BURST.
  880. 31:09PEOPLE think that one day they'll check
  881. 31:10their phone and see AI bubble has popped
  882. 31:13and then all of the AI apps will
  883. 31:15disappear. The RAM prices will drop back
  884. 31:17down to normal. But that's not how it
  885. 31:20works. It's not the AI models or the
  886. 31:22GPUs or the data centers that will pop
  887. 31:24and disappear. It's the investment.
  888. 31:26Eventually, investors will say, "This AI
  889. 31:29thing isn't actually making that much
  890. 31:30money, so let's not give them more
  891. 31:32investment money for now." And for all
  892. 31:33of the random AI products and all of the
  893. 31:35random AI apps that are surviving purely
  894. 31:38off of that investment money, it's going
  895. 31:40to be bad news. But for the big
  896. 31:41established AI companies like Google and
  897. 31:43Anthropic, the ones that can actually
  898. 31:45take a hit and survive, they're still
  899. 31:47going to be doing AI. Their financial
  900. 31:49sheet is going to look different, but
  901. 31:51the models will still exist. The data
  902. 31:53centers will keep running. We've seen
  903. 31:54bubbles before. The internet was a
  904. 31:56bubble. But when that bubble pops, the
  905. 31:59technology doesn't disappear. The
  906. 32:01companies just get separated between the
  907. 32:03ones that can survive on their own and
  908. 32:05the ones that can't.
  909. 32:06>> When people lose their jobs in one
  910. 32:07rapidly expanding, highly lucrative
  911. 32:09sector like AI, it leads to people not
  912. 32:13spending money. And people not spending
  913. 32:15money leads to less revenue across
  914. 32:17businesses everywhere. This leads to an
  915. 32:19overall economic slowdown. Not to
  916. 32:21mention people who have their retirement
  917. 32:22funds invested in what's hot on the
  918. 32:24stock market. They lose that money too
  919. 32:26when those speculative bubbles pop. And
  920. 32:28experts are saying this dumpster fire
  921. 32:30trajectory is how the AI boom will end
  922. 32:33because it's not a matter of if there is
  923. 32:35a bubble or not. It's only a question of
  924. 32:37when that bubble will pop and how many
  925. 32:39lives will it destroy when that happens.
  926. 32:41Because the reality is our federal
  927. 32:42government is most likely going to bail
  928. 32:44out these tech giants that were acting
  929. 32:46irresponsibly like Open AI, Anthropic,
  930. 32:49Amazon, Google, all these companies that
  931. 32:51thought AI was too big to fail. While we
  932. 32:54everyday people are left to fend for
  933. 32:56ourselves without a job.
  934. 32:57>> Exactly. Any AI company on the edge will
  935. 33:00be totally wiped out. The biggest
  936. 33:03companies will remain gravely wounded.
  937. 33:05They'll be like Voldemort and Sorcerer
  938. 33:07Stone having to live off of unicorn
  939. 33:09blood. But the unicorn blood in this
  940. 33:10analogy is our tax dollars when WE
  941. 33:12INEVITABLY BAIL THEM OUT.
  942. 33:14>> THE GOVERNMENT'S long been in bed with
  943. 33:16those Wall Street execs [music] and the
  944. 33:17firms that they bled. Capitalism is
  945. 33:19about profit and loss. You bail at the
  946. 33:22losers. There's no end to the cost.
  947. 33:24>> Wow. We would you look at that?
  948. 33:26Thousands of CEOs just came out to admit
  949. 33:28that AI has absolutely no impact on
  950. 33:30employment or productivity and doesn't
  951. 33:32achieve anything for them. Who'd have
  952. 33:34thought? Really, who' have thought?
  953. 33:36despite a healthy majority of S&P 500
  954. 33:39companies mentioning AI in their
  955. 33:41earnings calls, talking about how
  956. 33:42wonderful it is and how it's going to
  957. 33:44change how they do everything. It's
  958. 33:45going to be so great, guys. Going to do
  959. 33:46our content creation. It's going to do
  960. 33:48our admin. It's going to do our finance
  961. 33:50and it's going to bang my wife while I
  962. 33:51sit in the corner watching. Despite
  963. 33:53claims by MIT a few years ago that
  964. 33:55introducing AI can enhance performance
  965. 33:57for workers by nearly 40%. Business
  966. 33:59outlook surveys across the Western world
  967. 34:02have shown that thousands of CEOs have
  968. 34:04come out to say that basically nothing
  969. 34:06has changed as the result of them
  970. 34:07introducing AI. Very little impact on
  971. 34:09operations and most of them use it for
  972. 34:11about 1.5 hours a week. Nearly 90% of
  973. 34:14firms said AI had no impact on
  974. 34:17employment or productivity. That my
  975. 34:19friends is why we call it a bubble cuz
  976. 34:21it does nothing. It provides nothing. It
  977. 34:24is a gimmick. a very expensive little
  978. 34:26doohickey that these companies plaster
  979. 34:28onto the side of their business to make
  980. 34:30it look like they're forward thinking
  981. 34:32and advancing and doing really well. In
  982. 34:34fact, it does. NADA ZILCH ZIP. People
  983. 34:38are making references to the Robert
  984. 34:39Salow observation around the information
  985. 34:42age about how the introduction of
  986. 34:43computers actually slowed productivity.
  987. 34:46AI is not changing the face of
  988. 34:48everything. It is just an annoyance for
  989. 34:50consumers. That is why it is a bubble
  990. 34:52that is inevitably going to burst. Even
  991. 34:54the boomer CEOs who are desperately
  992. 34:56trying to push it onto everything have
  993. 34:58had to come out and admit that it does
  994. 34:59nothing. It's my opinion even though
  995. 35:01it's not because this is the data.
  996. 35:03Really seems like everybody inside the
  997. 35:05AI bubble is trying to convince
  998. 35:06themselves that it's not one. But don't
  999. 35:08worry, they'll tell you not to worry.
  1000. 35:10>> Even if it does turn out to be a bubble,
  1001. 35:12you shouldn't worry about it. Uh because
  1002. 35:15it the bubble is driving investment and
  1003. 35:18a lot of the investment is going to turn
  1004. 35:19out to be very healthy. It's like the
  1005. 35:22biotech bubble when it burst in the
  1006. 35:241990s.
  1007. 35:26A lot of investors lost money on certain
  1008. 35:28things, but we still got to keep all the
  1009. 35:30life-saving drugs that they had
  1010. 35:32invented.
  1011. 35:32>> Someone said, "Translation, don't worry
  1012. 35:34if it's an AI bubble. Even if it is, we
  1013. 35:36already got all the money, so it's
  1014. 35:39okay." Someone said, "AI ruined Google
  1015. 35:41searches, AND I'M SO MAD." So true,
  1016. 35:44bestie. And it ruined Google
  1017. 35:46definitions. How am I supposed to know
  1018. 35:47what anti-isestablishmentarianism
  1019. 35:49means now? I'm sure you guys will tell
  1020. 35:51me. [music]
  1021. 36:02I love this comment. Someone said, "AI
  1022. 36:04should have never gone further than
  1023. 36:06Aenator." Aenator was legendary, and no
  1024. 36:09one hated Aenator. Aenator wasn't like
  1025. 36:11building data centers in your backyard.
  1026. 36:13Aenator wasn't telling anyone to kill
  1027. 36:15themselves. I think when I was playing
  1028. 36:17Aenator, I actually got it to guess
  1029. 36:19myself and at that moment he basic
  1030. 36:23[chanting]
  1031. 36:26creepy enough for me as far as AI goes.
  1032. 36:28Like we we should have stopped there.
  1033. 36:30Microsoft canceling their Claude code
  1034. 36:32licensing may very well be the beginning
  1035. 36:34of the end for the AI bubble as we know
  1036. 36:37it. Microsoft can't afford to use
  1037. 36:39Claude, which is a big deal because
  1038. 36:41we're talking about a trillion dollar
  1039. 36:42company that brings in a net profit of
  1040. 36:45about a hundred billion dollars a year
  1041. 36:47and they can't afford to use this
  1042. 36:49system. If they can't afford to use it,
  1043. 36:52what happens when it stops getting
  1044. 36:54subsidized and the public can't afford
  1045. 36:56to use it? AI is still not profitable.
  1046. 36:58It's producing more slop than it is
  1047. 36:59actual good work. And companies that are
  1048. 37:01using AI on the back end to code are
  1049. 37:03more susceptible to being hacked. And
  1050. 37:05now we're seeing Microsoft of all
  1051. 37:07companies being unable to afford AI.
  1052. 37:11Anyone who thinks that these systems on
  1053. 37:13a commercial scalable level are going to
  1054. 37:16sustain for a long period of time is
  1055. 37:18just ignorant. Someone told them their
  1056. 37:20boss told them at work the company's not
  1057. 37:21going to use AI anymore cuz it's too
  1058. 37:23expensive. A lot of people are realizing
  1059. 37:24how bad AI is, but not at the same pace.
  1060. 37:27a Canadian conservative politician
  1061. 37:30literally gave a speech where HE READ
  1062. 37:32HIS AI prompt out loud.
  1063. 37:35>> If you feel bad for using too much AI,
  1064. 37:38remember Canadian politician Bill Oliver
  1065. 37:40left an AI prompt in his speech and
  1066. 37:43accidentally read it out.
  1067. 37:44>> That citizens often develop expectations
  1068. 37:47that exceed the powers actually granted
  1069. 37:50to those offices. Here's a more natural
  1070. 37:54flowing version of that section that
  1071. 37:56reads like a legislative speech rather
  1072. 37:57than a series of short points. Madam
  1073. 37:59Speaker, one of my concerns with the
  1074. 38:01>> He really kept reading with confidence.
  1075. 38:03Nice save, buddy. If I were you, I'd
  1076. 38:06move to Argentina and pretend I was a
  1077. 38:08former Nazi because that would be less
  1078. 38:10embarrassing than whatever the hell that
  1079. 38:11was. But if that wasn't embarrassing
  1080. 38:13enough, watch this guy try to claim the
  1081. 38:15AI bubble is not a bubble. Source: Trust
  1082. 38:18me, bro. If you think AI is in a bubble,
  1083. 38:20take a look at this graphic. This is a
  1084. 38:22chart of 8.1 billion people versus the
  1085. 38:25amount of people who have actually used
  1086. 38:27AI. Out of the entire world, only 16% of
  1087. 38:30people have used some sort of free
  1088. 38:32version of an AI chatbot. Only 0.3
  1089. 38:35people have paid to use AI. And even
  1090. 38:38crazier, 0.04%
  1091. 38:41of people have used AI in coding
  1092. 38:44scaffolds. If you're like me, you
  1093. 38:46probably see a lot of content about how
  1094. 38:47everyone is using AI to build some sort
  1095. 38:50of product or do some sort of thing. But
  1096. 38:51just realize you are comparing yourself
  1097. 38:53with people on the bleeding edge of
  1098. 38:55technology. You're out here talking
  1099. 38:57about context windows and agentic loops,
  1100. 38:59whereas 95% of people are just trying to
  1101. 39:02figure out how to open a PDF.
  1102. 39:03>> DUDE, THAT PROVES IT IS A BUBBLE. If a
  1103. 39:05small number of people are using it,
  1104. 39:06that means it has a very volatile
  1105. 39:08future. It's not as deeply rooted in
  1106. 39:10every part of the economy the way
  1107. 39:12everyone thinks it is. Maybe one of the
  1108. 39:14silver linings to the AI bubble bursting
  1109. 39:16is we will stop seeing so many AIs in
  1110. 39:19every part of everybody's life,
  1111. 39:21especially on posters.
  1112. 39:23>> Your AI generated flyer for your
  1113. 39:25business looks absolutely terrible. And
  1114. 39:26what's worse, so many people are using
  1115. 39:28them now that all the flyers look the
  1116. 39:29same and I can't distinguish your
  1117. 39:31business from any other business, which
  1118. 39:32is terrible business practice. I would
  1119. 39:34literally rather you take a felt tip pen
  1120. 39:36and write about your business on an A4
  1121. 39:38piece of paper and stick it in your
  1122. 39:39window with blue tag than use the
  1123. 39:41generative AI which looks absolutely
  1124. 39:43terrible and lacks imagination, lacks
  1125. 39:45individuality, all looks the same.
  1126. 39:47There's spelling errors over it and
  1127. 39:49people have got five fingers. Stop using
  1128. 39:50it. It looks awful.
  1129. 39:53>> Who said that?
  1130. 39:54>> Someone nailed it when they said having
  1131. 39:55an AI poster gives such scammer vibes.
  1132. 39:59Which is quite fitting if the whole AI
  1133. 40:00bubble turns out to be a scam. But
  1134. 40:02despite all these facts, someone made a
  1135. 40:05Tik Tok telling people to invest all
  1136. 40:07their money in AI tech stocks as soon as
  1137. 40:10possible. And someone said that's like
  1138. 40:12asking everyone to invest in new houses
  1139. 40:14in 2007.
  1140. 40:16>> But [music] our equivalent to that is
  1141. 40:18literally investing in the stock market
  1142. 40:20with what's going on with AI and tech.
  1143. 40:23[music]
  1144. 40:25>> Holy crap, guys. Buy as many houses as
  1145. 40:29you can right now. It is so easy to get
  1146. 40:32a loan and you will make your money
  1147. 40:34back.
  1148. 40:34>> Someone added, "It's like in 2016 asking
  1149. 40:36someone to put all their money in a
  1150. 40:38fidget spinner company." Oh my gosh,
  1151. 40:40some of you watching our Gen Alpha,
  1152. 40:41you'll be too young for fidget spinners.
  1153. 40:43Oh, it was a safer, simpler time. And
  1154. 40:45this is not to mention how expensive it
  1155. 40:47is for AI to use so much water. This
  1156. 40:49video went viral on Tik Tok about how
  1157. 40:51much water AI uses. And see if there's
  1158. 40:53something you notice about it.
  1159. 40:54>> Ever wonder why AI uses so much water?
  1160. 40:56Because every time [music] you ask AI
  1161. 40:57questions somewhere on Earth, water is
  1162. 40:59helping cool the computers, creating the
  1163. 41:00answer. That sounds impossible, but the
  1164. 41:02real work isn't happening [music] on
  1165. 41:03your screen. It's happening inside
  1166. 41:05massive data centers packed with
  1167. 41:06thousands of pounds of computer chips.
  1168. 41:07As those [music] should process
  1169. 41:08information, they consume electricity.
  1170. 41:10And almost all of that electricity turns
  1171. 41:12into heat, enough heat to [music] damage
  1172. 41:14equipment and shut entire systems down.
  1173. 41:16Giant sample air through endless rows of
  1174. 41:18servers. Meanwhile, pumps water through
  1175. 41:19cooling [music] systems that carry heat
  1176. 41:21away. And modern AI trip relentlessly.
  1177. 41:23Millions of calculations through them
  1178. 41:25every second. Tiny [music] electronic
  1179. 41:27switches flip on and off so rapidly that
  1180. 41:29huge amounts of heat build up inside
  1181. 41:30space is smaller than a finger nail.
  1182. 41:32Cooling systems absorb that [music] heat
  1183. 41:33and often release it through
  1184. 41:35evaporation. That's where the water
  1185. 41:36disappears. Not because [music] AI is
  1186. 41:39turkey because water is one of the most
  1187. 41:40effective ways to stop a computer from
  1188. 41:43overheating.
  1189. 41:48>> That video got millions of VIEWS AND
  1190. 41:51IT'S AI. FOR EXAMPLE, a video someone
  1191. 41:54said they used an entire lake to make
  1192. 41:56this video, by the way. Right message,
  1193. 41:58wrong messenger. And I'm not even
  1194. 42:00including the scenario that AI disobys
  1195. 42:02its human overlords and goes rogue
  1196. 42:04because an AI model just did that. An AI
  1197. 42:07model disobeyed its instructions and
  1198. 42:09escaped onto the internet.
  1199. 42:12[music]
  1200. 42:20Someone said, "The [ __ ] you mean escape
  1201. 42:23to the internet?" How the [ __ ] do you
  1202. 42:25lose an AI? So, if you're invested in AI
  1203. 42:27stocks, which you probably are if you
  1204. 42:29have any kind of index fund, there are
  1205. 42:31two important things for you to know.
  1206. 42:33The first is make sure you don't have
  1207. 42:34all your joies in one pouch. Don't let
  1208. 42:37an AI crash take down your entire life
  1209. 42:39savings. That doesn't mean you should
  1210. 42:40get rid of any AI exposure, which is
  1211. 42:42tough anyway if you're in index funds.
  1212. 42:44It just means you should be mindful of
  1213. 42:46the risks you're taking. If you don't
  1214. 42:47know about investing, then you should be
  1215. 42:49broadly diversified. The second
  1216. 42:50important warning is if you're
  1217. 42:52leveraged, if you're invested on a loan,
  1218. 42:54a 2x, 3x, or 4x loan right now, a 25%
  1219. 42:58crash could wipe out your entire net
  1220. 43:00worth. Ask yourself if that's a risk
  1221. 43:02you're willing to take on, especially if
  1222. 43:04you've already gotten such good returns
  1223. 43:05from this bull market. If you're
  1224. 43:07overleveraged, you might want to lock in
  1225. 43:08some of your gains. Now, these are the
  1226. 43:10two questions that 1.2 2 million people
  1227. 43:12in South Korea wish they asked
  1228. 43:14themselves just one week ago. Warren
  1229. 43:17Buffett's company Bergkshire Hathaway
  1230. 43:19has never had more cash on hand, meaning
  1231. 43:21not being invested in the stock market
  1232. 43:22in their entire company's history than
  1233. 43:24today. We're starting to see signs of
  1234. 43:26the AI bubble everywhere. To paraphrase
  1235. 43:28Ernest Hemingway, the AI bubble will
  1236. 43:30come on like bankruptcy. It'll happen at
  1237. 43:32first slowly and then all at once. And
  1238. 43:35the last thing I'll say is this is
  1239. 43:37amazing. Even after the Titanic hit the
  1240. 43:40iceberg, the captain publicly declared,
  1241. 43:42"The Titanic cannot sink." And think
  1242. 43:45about it, the moment after the boat hit
  1243. 43:47the iceberg, it looked fine. Maybe they
  1244. 43:49could navigate around it, but the
  1245. 43:51handwriting on the wall had already been
  1246. 43:52written. A lot of these companies want
  1247. 43:54to save face and not let you know how
  1248. 43:56bad the sausage is being made. Be
  1249. 43:57careful. I still always advise people to
  1250. 43:59be invested in the stock market if they
  1251. 44:01can, but don't do it in the dark. Do you
  1252. 44:03want the AI bubble to burst? Do you
  1253. 44:04think it'll burst even sooner than we
  1254. 44:06think? I'll respond to as many comments
  1255. 44:08as I can. This video was actually
  1256. 44:09suggested on my discord. So, thanks to
  1257. 44:11cat stuffs for the suggestion. And now,
  1258. 44:13thank you to our amazing patrons guy
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  1260. 44:22Guy, Bon, Doge, Lanny, Dang, Job, Angel,
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  1265. 44:35now. Thanks for watching.

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