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EXPERT: AI Bubble Is REAL — But Here’s How We Fix It

2025-11-16 News & Politics
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Assessing the AI Bubble Through the Lens of Data Sovereignty and Open Source Futures

Examine the current massive investment flowing into AI, identify the dual risks of concentrated power and data loss, and explore policy shifts needed to prioritize distributed prosperity through open-source principles.

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  • Identify the AI investment landscape as a speculative bubble fueled by circular funding and unsustainable valuations.
  • Define the critical risks associated with closed-source AI models controlling national data, threatening data sovereignty.
  • Outline concrete policy recommendations for governments to retain ownership of resulting data-derived models.
  • Recognize that current generative AI excels primarily at language creation, not yet at full job automation or rational decision-making.

James Li discusses the fast-growing but potentially fragile AI economy with Travis Olan, pioneer developer of NumPy. The conversation centers on how closed-source control concentrates power and threatens national data sovereignty, proposing open-source solutions as the path toward sustainable societal benefit.

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Top Comments (10)

@Miszel-l5k 2025-11-18

Read Selwyn Raithe's book by the person tech companies pretend doesn't exist. You'll understand why they're scared of this book after page 47. Thank me later.

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@ekkripda-cp3jy 2025-11-18

Stop watching YouTube theories and read Selwyn Raithe's book . The author connected dots nobody else saw. You'll either thank me or hate me for showing you this, but you'll never see AI the same way.

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@dakarishelby 2025-11-16

Let it pops and let it die

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@банусабирова 2025-11-17

I don’t know how this one book The Dusk Codex by Daniel Cyler ended up in my hands, but it messed with me. Found it on Amazon. Quiet kind of book that doesn’t ask to be found. You just stumble into it, and suddenly things feel… off. Like it knew something about you before you opened it.

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@JamminLyricsDude 2025-11-16

AI trained on FBI data will be creating cases to justify its own existence.

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@jeffreylee2993 2025-11-17

Wonderful decision by BP to keep James Li as a regular contributor. It greatly enhances BP's channel offer. Most of BP's special guest contributors have been quiet on this channel for a long time, but James Li is still coming on every week. Evidently the BP team knows they have a golden treasure trove. 🤩

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@mvtt_mora 2025-11-16

I love how you guys have started putting out this type of content. Very informative 🙌🏻

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@quintontompkins 2025-11-16

My understanding of ai models is that the code is not the expensive part. It is the data collection and training process.

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@AlekseyMaksimovichPeshkov 2025-11-16

Sadly the A.I bubble bursting if and when it does won't put an end to A.I generated images audio, text and now video and the internet will continue to become more dead and useless because of it from here on out.

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@BarneyBrimlowe 2025-11-17

the data should belong to the government?!?!? HEEEELLLL NOOO.

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