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MoneyGPT

AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

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MoneyGPT

By: James Rickards
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“Essential reading”–Forbes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The New Great Depression and Currency Wars, a telling prediction for how AI will endanger global economic markets and security

In November 2022, OpenAI released GPT-4 in a chatbot form to the public. In just two months, it claimed 100 million users—the fastest app to ever reach this benchmark. Since then, AI has become an all-consuming topic, popping up on the news, in ads, on your messenger apps, and in conversations with friends and family. But as AI becomes ubiquitous and grows at an ever-increasing pace, what does it mean for the financial markets?

In MoneyGPT, Wall Street veteran and former advisor to the Department of Defense James Rickards paints a comprehensive picture of the danger AI poses to the global financial order, and the insidious ways in which AI will threaten national security. Rickards shows how, while AI is touted to increase efficiency and lower costs, its global implementation in the financial world will actually cause chaos, as selling begets selling and bank runs happen at lightning speed. AI further benefits malicious actors, Rickards argues, because without human empathy or instinct to intervene, threats like total nuclear war that once felt extreme are now more likely. And throughout all this, we must remain vigilant on the question of whose values will be promoted in the age of AI. As Rickards predicts, these systems will fail when we rely on them the most.

MoneyGPT shows that the danger is not that AI will malfunction, but that it will function exactly as intended. The peril is not in the algorithms, but in ourselves. And it’s up to us to intervene with old-fashioned human logic and common sense before it’s too late.

©2024 James Rickards (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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"MoneyGPT [...] convincingly argues that the greatest danger is not that AI malfunctions, but that it will function precisely as it was intended to. [...] Indeed, the book makes a powerful case for better guardrails and limits around how humans might outsource decision-making as AI technology evolves."—The Financial Times

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Practical suggestions on how to shore up and continue in on matter what

I appreciate the depth of analysis and the breadth of topics Mr Rickards covers. He quotes cultural influencers from art to banking to AI to the pandemic.
His comforting reminders to keep our senses as we travel through this phase of digital living are appreciated.

God, family, and country!

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A critique on AI

I’d recommend this book to anyone that wants to understand the danger of AI in stock markets and in high stake decision making moments (ie military action)

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Why GPT is dangerous

Excellent book though it starts out dry. Best material is sections where Rickards explains how and why AI and GPT will lead to unforeseen disasters if not restrained by human judgment and common sense.

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I always find a Rickards book thought provoking.

I think the book would have been better served with a professional narrator. It was hard to understand but turning up the volume helped.

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Always interesting

I look forward to all of Mr. Rickards’ books because they are always well researched and extremely interesting. I love his sidebars too, like his brief bit about Andy Warhol.

I also enjoy his reading style, as I listen at 2x and his style accommodates that perfectly.

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Audible Audio book.

This is a case of an author who should stick to writing. This audiobook was read so bland and monotone it is painful! I'm not sure I can finish the whole 5 hours.

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You list me with the conspiracy politics.

As a previous fan I have found Mr. Rickards insights into economics were very interesting in the past, but it’s getting to be a bit old crying the collapse is coming. The collapse is coming!!! He’s been saying the same thing for 20 years. Now it’s AI that the existential threat when in fact the real existential threat to life as we know it is the the patent foolishness that Mr Rickards politics represent. The last half of the book is a diatribe of political complaints as petty as Biden son’s laptop changing the election . On top of this he layers on a solid dose of bogus anti-vaccine statistics, and just about every Red hat talking point I could think of. Mr Rickards, as with so many truth tellers you have lost your way in a delusion of grand conspiracy and imminent threat, to the point that you will believe con men just because they say what you want to hear. I gave you two stars because half the book was interesting, the other half, just a compilation of 5 years of Red Hat greatest hits. I’m sure you’ll make big money on Truth Social with this crap, but you’ll not get another dollar out of me.

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Poor narrator

narrator had zero talent in narration , he made the book horrible to be listened , i wish if there is other narrator

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