that changes the fact that the tool itself is extraordinarily useful. There are hundreds of uses that don’t require massive data mining of the world. If the entire industry shrunk down to one that just sold “idea processors, ” I wouldn’t cry about it.
Also, interesting you chose the subprime crisis. That collapsed because its underlying assets (bad mortgages) were junk. AI isn’t junk — it’s infrastructure. Expensive today, maybe inefficient, but it doesn’t evaporate like imaginary mortgage …