Dan Niles: AI Won’t Kill Us—But Some AI Stocks Won’t Survive

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Dan Niles doesn’t think AI wiping out humanity is a likely outcome—but he does think the technology could wipe out plenty of stocks. The Founder & Portfolio Manager of Niles Investment Management joins Amber Kanwar at a moment of peak AI anxiety to separate the existential fears from the very real investment risks. Niles believes AI is the biggest technological revolution since the internet and that agentic AI is still in its early stages, but he also sees warning signs in slowing AI spending growth, data-centre push-outs and increasingly aggressive assumptions about how long the boom can last. He also weighs in on the battle among the biggest names in AI, including Google, Meta and the…