Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of AI

About this episode

Aman Verjee discusses his career in finance and the implications of AI as a potential bubble.

Aman Verjee has had one of the more unusual careers in finance. He started on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers, joined PayPal in its earliest days and worked alongside Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, and eventually became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. Along the way he developed an obsession with the history of finance, which led to his upcoming book, A Brief History of Financial Bubbles. He joined Coleman to talk about what the biggest bubbles of the last 500 years have in common, what they reveal about the societies that produced them, and what actually caused the 2008 crisis. Then they look at the questions that everyone is asking: Is AI a bubble, and how will it end? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Coleman

Guest: Aman Verjee

Topics covered

• AI
• finance
• financial bubbles
• 2008 crisis
• venture capital
• society

Keywords

• AI
• financial bubbles
• 2008 crisis
• venture capital
• Aman Verjee

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lehman Brothers, PayPal, Silicon Valley

Books & works: A Brief History of Financial Bubbles

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