Many investors are asking themselves if we are living in an AI bubble; others have gone beyond that and are simply asking themselves, until when? Yet the bubble keeps growing, fuelled by that perilous sentiment of “fear of missing out”. History and recent experience show us that financial bubbles are often created by investor overenthusiasm with new “world-changing” technologies and when they burst, they reveal surreal fraud schemes that develop under the cover of the bubble.
A Ponzi scheme pays existing investors with money from new investors rather than actual profits, requiring continuous recruitment until it inevitably collapses. A characteristic of these schemes is that they are hard to detect before the bubble bursts, but amazingly simple to understand in retrospect.
