Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of AI

By The Free Press | Created at 2026-06-01 09:10:24 | Updated at 2026-06-07 14:21:38 6 days ago

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Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of AI

Investor and author Aman Verjee joins Coleman Hughes to explain what 500 years of financial history can tell us about the AI moment we’re actually in.

Every generation has its bubble. Tulips in 1630s Amsterdam. Railways in 1840s England. Dot-com in 1999. And in each case, the story we tell afterward is roughly the same: irrational mania, easy money, and a crash that was obvious in retrospect. But what if that story is more complicated than it looks?

Aman Verjee has spent years studying the biggest fina…

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