Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid said the Fed needs to understand whether the network of firms and contracts forming around the AI and data-centre build-out is becoming a 'too-big-to-fail AI ecosystem', invoking the 2007-09 bailouts and asking 'Is there anything systemic?'. The remarks came two months after reports that Nvidia was weighing guaranteeing financing for an OpenAI data centre and its chip purchases.
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A sitting Fed policymaker framing AI interdependence in too-big-to-fail terms signals that supervisors may start probing how exposed the financial system is to the AI build-out.
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