Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

😯 No joke, we’ve heard similar things before: “Mid-to-high-level managers are being told by their bosses that they need to use AI for X percent of their job to satisfy the board.”

The top-level management of many companies trusts the promises of AI providers that their employees will be more productive thanks to (generative) AI. However, studies show a different picture:

“Developers had completed tasks 20 percent slower when using AI than when working without it.”

The bigger picture and problem with this is:

“The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. […] If that bubble bursts, it could put the dot-com crash to shame—and the tech giants and their Silicon Valley backers won’t be the only ones who suffer.”

Click here for the complete long and good read:

👉 https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/

As has been said before in another post, the problem is that technological change is rapid, but social, economic, and organizational change is slow:

“None of that means that AI can’t eventually be every bit as transformative as its biggest boosters claim it will be. But eventually could turn out to be a long time.”

Are you preparing for the bubble to burst? And how? 👇