Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss

Wed, 21 Jan 2026

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Jamie Dimon, the boss of JP Morgan, has said artificial intelligence “may go too fast for society” and cause “civil unrest” unless governments and business support displaced workers.

While advances in AI will have huge benefits, from increasing productivity to curing diseases, the technology may need to be phased in to “save society”, he said.