{"id":156861,"date":"2025-09-14T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156861\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:12:07","slug":"openai-board-chair-bret-taylor-says-were-in-an-ai-bubble-but-thats-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156861\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI board chair Bret Taylor says we\u2019re in an AI bubble (but that\u2019s okay)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bret Taylor, board chair at OpenAI and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/04\/bret-taylors-sierra-raises-350m-at-a-10b-valuation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI agent startup Sierra<\/a>, was asked in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel\/773904\/sierra-ceo-bret-taylor-ai-agents-openai-bubble-interview\" target=\"_blank\">a recent interview with The Verge<\/a> whether he agreed with OpenAI CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/someone-going-lose-phenomenal-amount-130131761.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Altman\u2019s declaration<\/a> that \u201csomeone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money in AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taylor echoed Altman\u2019s sentiments, suggesting that we are indeed in an AI bubble \u2014 but like Altman, he didn\u2019t sound too worried about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think it is both true that AI will transform the economy, and I think it will, like the internet, create huge amounts of economic value in the future,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cI think we\u2019re also in a bubble, and a lot of people will lose a lot of money. I think both are absolutely true at the same time, and there\u2019s a lot of historical precedent for both of those things being true at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specifically, Taylor compared today\u2019s AI landscape to the dot-com bubble of the late \u201890s. While many companies failed when the bubble burst, he argued that \u201call the people in 1999 were kind of right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bret Taylor, board chair at OpenAI and CEO of AI agent startup Sierra, was asked in a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,95749,64243,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-156861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-bret-taylor","12":"tag-sierra","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}