Blackstone’s Jas Khaira downplays AI debt concerns amid market jitters

The private equity giant's AI chief says the firm isn't panicking as AI-linked bonds slide toward distressed territory The AI boom has a debt problem, or at least the bond market thinks it might. Blackstone’s top AI executive, Jasvinder “Jas” Khaira, says the firm is not losing sleep over it. Khaira leads Blackstone’s AI efforts through a unit known as BXN1. It pulls together a range of private equity strategies aimed at the wider AI ecosystem. He founded the firm’s N1 platform in April 2026. He is no newcomer, though: Khaira has been at Blackstone since 2004. Blackstone has numbers to back that stance. An internal AI risk review of BCRED, the firm’s private credit fund, found that under 5% of its investments face substantial AI-related headwinds.

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