{"id":78912,"date":"2026-09-20T05:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/ai-slowdown-calls-justified-but-collapse-of-bubble-may-be-more-immediate-threat-heather-stewart\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:55:04","slug":"ai-slowdown-calls-justified-but-collapse-of-bubble-may-be-more-immediate-threat-heather-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/ai-slowdown-calls-justified-but-collapse-of-bubble-may-be-more-immediate-threat-heather-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry<\/p>\n<p>Warnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But even amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/20\/your-ai-doomsday-questions-answered-could-ai-technology-really-end-humanity\">omens of apocalypse<\/a>, it is still worth asking if the entire AI-industrial complex is sailing towards a financial iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>It will hardly be our most pressing concern if the bots are poised to take over the world, but a collapse of the AI bubble would have repercussions far beyond the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/sep\/20\/ai-slowdown-calls-collapse-of-bubble-datacentre-tech-firms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry Warnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But even amid the omens of apocalypse, it is still worth asking if the entire AI-industrial complex is sailing towards a &#8230; <a title=\"AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/ai-slowdown-calls-justified-but-collapse-of-bubble-may-be-more-immediate-threat-heather-stewart\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}