# Is the AI boom a financial-stability risk?

> How did central banks and regulators move from worrying about AI valuations to worrying about AI debt and circular financing?

Between late 2025 and autumn 2026 the concern shifted from stretched AI share prices to how the build-out is financed: bonds, private credit, off-balance-sheet vehicles and vendors funding their own customers. This line follows that shift from the FSB's supplier-concentration warning to a Fed official asking whether AI is becoming too big to fail.

## Stops
1. **10 Oct 2025: FSB says AI monitoring in finance is immature, flags supplier concentration** (Development) The FSB frames AI risk as concentration in a handful of chip, cloud and model suppliers. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-fsb-ai-monitoring-report-2025-10/) · [source](https://www.fsb.org/2025/10/fsb-outlines-next-steps-for-authorities-on-ai-monitoring/)
2. **22 Jan 2026: Senate Democrats ask Treasury and FSOC to probe AI-sector debt risks** (Development) Senators put the size of AI data-centre debt and private-credit exposure on the FSOC agenda. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-senate-democrats-fsoc-ai-debt-letter-2026-01/) · [source](https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/20260122_final_letter_to_secretary_bessent_re_ai_debtpdf.pdf)
3. **8 May 2026: Half of Fed survey contacts now name AI as a salient financial-stability risk** (Development) Half of the Fed's market contacts now cite AI as a top risk, up from 30%. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-fed-financial-stability-report-ai-2026-05/) · [source](https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/financial-stability-report.htm)
4. **7 Jul 2026: Bank of England flags AI debt boom, circular financing and AI cyber threat** (Development) The Bank of England names circular financing and off-balance-sheet AI vehicles as fragilities and quantifies a correction. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-boe-fsr-ai-valuations-circular-financing-2026-07/) · [source](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/financial-stability-report/2026/financial-stability-report-july-2026.pdf)
5. **25 Sep 2026: Kansas City Fed's Schmid asks whether the AI ecosystem is becoming too big to fail** (Development) A Fed president asks whether interlocking AI commitments are becoming too big to fail. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-kc-fed-schmid-ai-too-big-to-fail-2026-09/) · [source](https://www.kitco.com/news/off-the-wire/2026-09-25/feds-schmid-need-understand-if-ai-ecosystem-getting-too-big-fail)
6. **United States (federal)** (Country) Most AI capex, debt and equity concentration sits in US markets. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/j/us/)
7. **United Kingdom** (Country) The UK's FPC has been the most explicit official voice on AI bubble and financing risk. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/j/gb/)

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