{"slug": "bank-of-england-warns-an-ai-crash-could-plunge-uk-into-recession", "title": "Bank of England warns an AI crash could plunge UK into recession", "summary": "The Bank of England warned that a crash in artificial intelligence stocks could plunge the UK into recession, citing a potential 2.2% fall in GDP. Governor Andrew Bailey highlighted risks from overvalued AI stocks, slower-than-expected adoption, and uncertainty over long-term winners.", "body_md": "The U.K. is at risk of recession if the artificial intelligence bubble pops, the Bank of England warned today, as investors increasingly park their cash into tech stocks.\n\nA price correction in AI stocks, driven by a change in productivity and profitability among tech-led companies, could cause a 2.2 percent fall in U.K. GDP, the Bank warned in its financial stability report today.\n\n“The risk of a sharp correction in equity markets remains high,” said Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, warning of a \"triple whammy\" of AI-related risks to the economy: outsized bets on AI stocks, slower adoption of the technology than predicted and questions over which firms will be winners in the sector over the long run.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bank-of-england-warns-an-ai-crash-could-plunge-uk-into-recession", "canonical_source": "https://www.politico.eu/article/bank-of-england-andrew-bailey-warn-ai-uk-recession/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication", "published_at": "2026-07-07 12:19:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 12:40:32.629350+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Bank of England", "Andrew Bailey", "UK"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bank-of-england-warns-an-ai-crash-could-plunge-uk-into-recession", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bank-of-england-warns-an-ai-crash-could-plunge-uk-into-recession.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bank-of-england-warns-an-ai-crash-could-plunge-uk-into-recession.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bank-of-england-warns-an-ai-crash-could-plunge-uk-into-recession.jsonld"}}