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The AI boom is said to have started an arms race in which large companies are competing against each other to have the most powerful AI model on the market, with speed and profit prioritized over safety and user protection.
=== Human extinction ===
Industry leaders and others have signed the Statement on AI Risk, arguing that humanity might irreversibly lose control over a sufficiently advanced artificial general intelligence (AGI).
=== Digital sentience ===
Coverage of advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have coincided with discussions of digital sentience and morality, such as whether AI programs should be granted rights.
=== Financial concerns and potential bubble ===
Much of the AI boom has been funded by loans and venture capital, but many commercial AI services remain of questionable practical utility or quality for business. Despite more than $60 billion in corporate investment in AI in 2025, 95% of business AI projects are unprofitable, according to research from MIT. Producers of generative AI, such as OpenAI, also themselves currently have costs greatly exceeding their revenue. As other major tech companies such as Nvidia are both heavily invested into AI and dependent on the AI ecosystem and its hardware demands for their own ongoing growth, this has raised speculation of a wider economic bubble in the tech industry, particularly if future demand falls short of the current levels of AI investment.
== See also ==
AI bubble
AI datacenter
AI effect
AI slop
AI winter, a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research
History of artificial intelligence
History of artificial neural networks
Hype cycle
List of artificial intelligence projects
List of artificial intelligence journals
Lists of open-source artificial intelligence software
Progress in artificial intelligence
Regulation of artificial intelligence
Technological singularity
Timeline of artificial intelligence risks in global finance
== References ==
== Further reading ==
Chen, Caiwei (26 March 2025). "China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
Heath, Alex (5 December 2024). Why investors don't mind that AI is a money pit. The Verge. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
Vaswani, Ashish; Gomez, Aidan N; et al. (2017). "Attention is All you Need" (PDF). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 30. Curran Associates, Inc.
Weise, Karen; Metz, Cade; Grant, Nico; Isaac, Mike (5 December 2023). "Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever". The New York Times.
== External links ==
"In the Age of AI". Frontline. Season 38. Episode 6. 5 November 2019. PBS. WGBH. Retrieved 4 June 2023.