Should Robots Invest for You? Probably— Here's Why
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Money News Network
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand. |
| 0:06.8 | It's time for some many rehab. Would you let a robot make financial decisions for you? And this isn't hypothetical. |
| 0:20.5 | Most if not all of the big brokers offer users programs where they can have their money invested by what they call |
| 0:27.0 | Robo Advisors. |
| 0:29.0 | At first that concept might make you feel a little uncomfortable, right? |
| 0:33.0 | I mean, it's your hard-earned money, |
| 0:34.2 | and if you were going to get help, making investment decisions, |
| 0:37.2 | you might think that you would want help |
| 0:39.3 | from an actual human who understands the emotional significance of money. |
| 0:44.0 | But actually, you don't. |
| 0:46.4 | While stock trading by artificial intelligence or AI |
| 0:49.7 | sounds sophisticated and complicated, |
| 0:52.0 | just think of it as investments executed by computers. |
| 0:55.2 | And it's really common. It's estimated that between 60 and 73% of all US equities trading is conducted using AI algorithms. |
| 1:05.0 | I'll say that again for the folks in the back. |
| 1:07.5 | It's estimated that between 60 and 73% of all US equities trading is conducted by AI algorithms. I've found that a lot of people are |
| 1:16.8 | surprised by that figure and assume that there are just more humans in the market, but no, it's robots. So the majority of investing on Wall Street |
| 1:25.9 | happens via AI. But what does that actually mean? It doesn't mean that |
| 1:30.8 | chat GBT is making our investments for us and side note for those of you |
| 1:35.4 | who have been living under a rock like I occasionally do chat gbt is an AI chatbot that has |
| 1:41.1 | become an internet sensation people are are using chat geevT |
| 1:44.7 | for all sorts of things that may or may not be kosher, like prompting the |
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