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JP모건은 AI에 연간 약 20억달러를 투자하며 2000명의 ML·데이터 전문가를 두고 있고, 직원 15만명이 내부 AI 도구를 주간 사용한다. 디몬은 투자 대비 약 20억달러의 효익이 있다고 보며 AI 거품은 닷컴처럼 일부 기업 도산 후 거인을 낳을 것이라 본다. AI는 일부 직무를 없애지만 재교육으로 기회를 만든다고 주장한다. 거시적으로는 강세장이지만 인플레이션 재발을 우려하며 시장이 기대하는 100bp 금리인하가 어긋날 수 있다고 경고한다. 상장사 수가 1996년 약 8000개에서 약 4000개로 줄어든 구조적 문제도 지적한다.
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Welcome to The Explainer. Today we're going to get inside the head of one of the world's most powerful CEOs, Jamie Dimon. We're going to see how he's thinking about AI, this kind of crazy economy, and really the whole future of business. So to really understand what AI is doing in the real world, you know, beyond all the hype, we're going right inside JP Morgan Chase and our guide is going to be the CEO.
Himself, Jamie Dimon, his perspective is super fascinating because it's so on the ground. Alright, so let's dig into that quote. It's kind of the tip of the iceberg. What does he really mean by that? Well, we're going to start with how his companies pouring billions. That's what AB into this tech and why he thinks we haven't seen anything yet.
Alright, let's start with the micro view here. How one single absolutely massive bank is using AI on a scale that's well, it's pretty mind blowing. And look, this isn't some five year plan. This is happening right now and the numbers, they're just staggering. OK, let's start with the cash, $2 billion, that's not their total investment, that's what JP Morgan.
Spending on AI every single year, I mean, that's a huge commitment, right? It just shows you how central this technology has become to their entire game plan. And look, it's not just about the money, it's about the brainpower. They have 2000 machine learning experts and data scientists working on this stuff.
And these folks aren't tucked away in some R&D lab. No way they're embedded in every single part of the business. We're talking fraud detection, risk marketing, even coming U with new ideas and the ripple effect across the company. It's huge. 150,000 of their own employees are using the bank's internal AI tools every single week.
I mean. Just imagine the boost in productivity when that many people can instantly summarize long reports or scan contracts in seconds. O here's the kicker. The really crucial point is this massive investment actually paying off. Well, according to Diamond, for the $2 billion they spend, they see a direct $2 billion benefit.
We're talking cost savings, new efficiencies. It's basically a one to one return on investment and he still thinks they're just getting warmed up. Now, if you're listening to all of this and thinking, OK, this feels a little bubbly, a little overheated, well, Diamond would actually agree with you. In fact, he compares this whole AI boom to another massive tech shift we all remember.
The.com bubble. His argument is pretty simple, and it makes a lot of sense. He's basically saying, yeah, a ton of money is going to get wasted. A lot of AI companies are going to go bust, just like what happened in the late 90s. But out of all that chaos, that's where the giants are born. You know, think about it.
The first Internet wave gave us Google and Facebook. He's betting the exact same thing is going to happen with AI. OK, so that brings us to the next really big question, probably the one on everyone's mind. What does all this automation actually mean for our jobs? O will AI create more jobs or just get rid of them?
Diamond tackles this one head on. He doesn't sugarcoat it at all. He basically says don't put your head in the sand. But his take on it?Is actually pretty nuanced and this really gets to the heart of his idea. Look, he's very clear. Yes, some jobs, some functions, they're going to go away. But, and this is a big but for a successful company that's growing, he believes AI actually creates more opportunities than it destroys.
The key, he says, is to get ahead of it, retrain your people. Move them into the new roles that this technology is going to create no matter what. All right, so let's zoom out. We've talked about AI inside one company. We've talked about jobs. Now let's look at the entire economy. And here diamonds view is kind of two sided.
He sees the good this bull market we're in, but he also sees some pretty serious warning signs. He's not denying that things look strong on the surface. You know, the consumer is still hanging in there. People have jobs, Asset prices are U. So far, so good. But he's got his eye on one major threat that he thinks the market is maybe being a little too relaxed about.
And that one big threat, it's inflation. He says he's just more nervous than the rest of the market that prices aren't going to come down as neatly as everyone hopes. You've still got all this government spending sloshing around. And he worries a surprise jump in inflation could really catch people off guard.
And this is where it gets really interesting. You can see this gap between Wall Street's optimism and diamonds caution. Right now, the market is expecting about 100 basis points and rate cuts from the Fed. That's a full 1% cut. But Diamond's point is, hey, when have these forecasts ever been right? If inflation sticks around, those rate cuts, they might not happen.
Which all boils down to his core philosophy for running a business in a world like this. Hope for the best. Plan for the worst. It's not about being negative, right? It's about being a realist. You prepare your company to handle the hits, even as you're hoping they never come. OK, for our final zoom out, we're going big picture.
We're going to look at with. Diamond thinks about the health of the entire capitalist system, and he sees a pretty fundamental problem, something he believes is actually choking. Off the economy's energy. So Diamond points to this huge structural issue. Think about it. The engine of American capitalism has always been the public markets, right?
It's where new companies can go to get capital to grow, to become the next big thing. But he says that engine is starting to sputter and to really get a sense of how big this problem. You just have to look at the numbers. Let's go back to 1996. Back then there were about 8000 public companies in the UI mean that's a huge diverse engine powering the economy.
And today that number has been chopped in half. We're down to around 4000. O, as Diamond sees it, we're not just letting this happen. We are actively driving companies away from going public and the big question is why? Well, Diamond's argument is that it's basically death by 1000 cuts. It's this combination of things.
You've got endless regulations, the constant fear of getting sued, these one-size-fits-all rules for how to run your company, and this insane pressure to hit your numbers. Every single quarter it all just adds U and makes it way too hard and way too expensive for a lot of companies to even bother going public.
He says we've, and this is his phrase, kind of crushed that vital part of our system. So what's the big take away here? It's this really interesting mix, right? On one hand you have this incredible long term optimism about technology. Like AI and what people can do with it, but on the other hand you have this very clear eyed short term realism about the risks we're facing.
He sees AI as this amazing engine for growth, but at the same time he sees these huge hurdles in the system that could hold us all back. And that leaves us with the real challenge. In a world changing this fast, can anyone really plan for the worst while still truly hoping for the best?
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