What if the AI boom is beginning to follow the crypto playbook? Create extraordinary optimism, build FOMO, push valuations higher, then introduce fear, let the market fall, and let the biggest players buy the dip. In this BestMediaInfo guest column, Ajay Varma, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at 0101.Today, examines one of the most uncomfortable questions in technology today: whether the narrative surrounding AI has become an investment instrument of its own. Written in the wake of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk all calling for AI development to slow down, while AI and semiconductor stocks took a significant hit the very next day, the piece traces the hype-fear-accumulation cycle with striking parallels to crypto and asks who actually benefits when the world believes AI will take over. Ajay is careful to note this is a conspiracy theory without proof, but the pattern is worth watching: the same people building the most powerful AI systems are now warning the world about it, regulators are being invited into the conversation, and somewhere in the middle sits trillions of dollars. The biggest question may not be whether AI will take over the world. It may be who benefits when the world believes it will.
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