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Enrique Dans

On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at since 2003)

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When it comes to investing, who would you trust, a blindfolded monkey, or AI?

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IMAGE: A comic-style illustration featuring a large stock market graph with a robot pulling the graph’s line downwards

At the same time that research is beginning to emerge pointing to how , apparently (what’s come to be known as the ), US Treasury Secretary issues in Washington.

Yellen’s warnings, delivered during a conference on AI and financial stability before the and the , have to do with several factors and attributes of AI algorithms:

  1. Complexity and Opacity: AI models can be highly complex and non-transparent, making it difficult for their users and the markets to understand and manage them.
  2. Inadequate risk management: we still lack sufficient conceptual, legal and liability frameworks to address the potential risks associated with applying AI to financial markets, as well as the responsibilities incurred by each party.
  3. Dependence on uniform models: organizations could become dependent for their decision-making on the same models trained on the same data, creating systemic risks derived from widespread actions inspired or coordinated by these similar analyses.
  4. Concentration risk: AI models and the data…
Enrique Dans
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On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at since 2003)

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Written by Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at )

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