IBM exec asks job candidates whether they think we are in an AI bubble as a make-or-break interview test

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Do you think we’re in an AI bubble? Even the experts who’ve predicted past crashes can’t seem to agree.

“Dr. Doom” Nouriel Roubini—who predicted the mid-2000s housing crash that Wall Street dismissed—isn’t convinced we’re heading for catastrophe. Yet the analyst who called the dotcom bubble has warned it will all “end in tears.” And then there’s the Big Short investor Michael Burry, who is going as far as betting $1 billion on the AI bubble bursting.