A weekend debate over “recursive self-improvement,” the risk that AI could accelerate its own development to the point where humans struggle to stay meaningfully in control, prompted some in the industry to call for a more cautious pace of development. We think the correction in AI stocks on Monday was overdone. Investors may be conflating two separate questions: how fast frontier AI capability should advance, and how fast the world adopts the AI that already exists. The first is genuinely more uncertain. The second isn’t, and it’s the second that drives datacentre capex cycle.
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“Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!” John C. Bogle, 2007 the founder of Vanguard. The advice still holds. But the haystack has changed: ten stocks now make up 38% of the S&P 500.
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A weekend debate over “recursive self-improvement,” the risk that AI could accelerate its own development to the point where humans struggle to stay meaningfully in control, prompted some in the industry to call for a more cautious pace of development. We think the correction in AI stocks on Monday was overdone. Investors may be conflating two separate questions: how fast frontier AI capability should advance, and how fast the world adopts the AI that already exists. The first is genuinely more uncertain. The second isn’t, and it’s the second that drives datacentre capex cycle.
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