A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming 'too big to fail'
Credit: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City document.getElementsByClassName('tnw-ad-wrapper')[1]?.classList?.add('ad-wrapper__growth-quarters'); A senior Federal Reserve official has put an uncomfortable question on the table. Speaking this week, Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid said the finances around the AI buildout now merit close watching. Jeff Schmid said there were signs the industry had grown large enough that policymakers should start discussing it at a macro level, and asked whether AI was becoming another sector that was too big to fail.
- ▪Credit: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City document.getElementsByClassName('tnw-ad-wrapper')[1]?.classList?.add('ad-wrapper__growth-quarters'); A senior Federal Reserve official has put an uncomfortable question on the table.
- ▪Speaking this week, Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid said the finances around the AI buildout now merit close watching.
- ▪Jeff Schmid said there were signs the industry had grown large enough that policymakers should start discussing it at a macro level, and asked whether AI was becoming another sector that was too big to fail.
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| Publication time | Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:08:25 +0000 |
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Credit: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City document.getElementsByClassName('tnw-ad-wrapper')[1]?.classList?.add('ad-wrapper__growth-quarters'); A senior Federal Reserve official has put an uncomfortable question on the table. Speaking this week, Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid said the finances around the AI buildout now merit close watching. Jeff Schmid said there were signs the industry had grown large enough that policymakers should start discussing it at a macro level, and asked whether AI was becoming another sector that was too big to fail. That phrase carries weight. It was the language of the 2008 financial crisis, when banks had grown so central that governments felt forced to rescue them, and hearing it applied to AI is a notable escalation in official tone.
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