{"id":1023331,"date":"2026-07-24T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023331"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:58:22","slug":"the-man-who-predicted-covid-19-and-the-2008-financial-crisis-issues-stark-warning-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/the-man-who-predicted-covid-19-and-the-2008-financial-crisis-issues-stark-warning-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who &#8216;predicted&#8217; COVID-19 and the 2008 financial crisis issues stark warning about AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British journalist Robert Peston, who reportedly warned about the 2008 financial crisis and the emerging COVID-19 pandemic before they unfolded, has issued a stark warning about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that it could have far-reaching consequences for the global economy and employment. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Radio Times while promoting his new thriller, The Kill Switch, Peston, who is ITV&#8217;s political editor, said he was concerned that the huge investment pouring into AI infrastructure could fuel a global financial crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British journalist Robert Peston, who reportedly warned about the 2008 financial crisis and the emerging COVID-19 pandemic before they unfolded, has issued a stark warning about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that it could have far-reaching consequences for the global economy and employment. In an interview with Radio Times while promoting his new thriller, The Kill Switch, Peston, who is ITV&#8217;s political editor, said he was concerned that the huge investment pouring into AI infrastructure could fuel a global financial crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023408,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023331\/revisions\/1023408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}