Professional investors have spent the past few years obsessing over AI. Is it a bubble? Which jobs will it disrupt (ie kill)? Which industries will be transformed? How can we back the winners and avoid the losers?
But while investors are looking out at the world and asking how AI could change it, the first thing it has really changed is the ground beneath their feet. AI technology itself, the hype machine that propels it, and its winner-takes-all characteristics are fundamentally resetting the way investors — amateur and professional — allocate funds and diversify risks across every major asset class. We won’t know until it’s too late whether this is a good or bad thing.
The rush of eye-poppingly enormous stock market listings from AI-flavoured companies is the most high-profile and obvious element of this revolution, as Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched on to public markets this week with fanfare that most companies can only dream of for their public debuts.