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AI statistics often overstate actual usage depth

The guest argued that surveys showing high AI adoption for financial advice are misleading, as most usage is for research and comparison, not for holistic, high-stakes planning.

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CONTESTED · 51 MENTIONS · 34 EPISODES · 17 SHOWS

14 SEP 2025 — 25 AUG 2026 · 3D AGO

5 SUPPORT · 2 CHALLENGE · 2 REPEAT · 42 MENTIONED

14 SEP 2025 · FIRST HEARD
THE GRANT WILLIAMS PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
27 EPISODES BETWEEN · 39 MENTIONS
1. 21 OCT 2025
  THE LONG VIEW
  - Human advisors define the destination for self-driving money
2. 13 NOV 2025
  THE RATIONAL REMINDER PODCAST
  - Skepticism on AI scaling financial advice
3. 15 NOV 2025
  SMARTERMARKETS
  - Auditability, attribution, attestation as AI safeguards
4. 13 JAN 2026
  THE LONG VIEW
  - AI's dual role in hyper-personalization and hallucination risk
5. 15 JAN 2026
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS · 4 MENTIONS
  - AI as empathetic financial coach
  - AI shifts real-time from informing to acting
  - Trust is the core constraint for AI adoption
  - Self-driving money as a generational shift
6. 22 JAN 2026
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS
  - EVALs and guardrails enable production AI
7. 26 JAN 2026
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS
  - AI-driven, real-time financial coaching
8. 5 FEB 2026
  BUSINESS BREAKDOWNS
  - Agentic AI's path in investment research
9. 12 FEB 2026
  THE RATIONAL REMINDER PODCAST
  - Inoculation education reduces scam susceptibility
10. 11 MAR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - AI agents need human-governed rule sets
11. 18 MAR 2026
  REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
  - AI financial advice requires expert prompting
12. 24 MAR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
  - AI accelerates product development and personalization
  - AI as an educational, not advisory, tool
13. 25 MAR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Regulate the actor, not the AI tool developer
14. 26 MAR 2026
  EXCESS RETURNS
  - AI's dual-edged role in financial research
15. 30 MAR 2026
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS · 3 MENTIONS
  - Agentic AI as a proactive financial assistant
  - Trust and guardrails key for AI adoption
  - AI's role in proactive, democratized banking
16. 6 APR 2026
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS · 3 MENTIONS
  - AI agents as the future brokerage interface
  - AI can democratize sophisticated investing strategies
  - AI flips the script on consumer risk protection
17. 17 APR 2026
  MASTERS IN BUSINESS
  - AI as an accelerator for quantitative data analysis
18. 30 JUL 2026
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS · 2 MENTIONS
  - AI shifts hyper-personalized financial education economics
  - AI enables scalable hybrid wealth advice models
19. 5 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  ANIMAL SPIRITS
  - AI agentic trading as fun, not alpha
20. 5 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - AI agents inevitable for retail trading
21. 6 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS
  - AI as enabler of human mortgage advice
22. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - AI retail trading as zero-commission 2.0
23. 10 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS · 2 MENTIONS
  - Embedded investing needs embedded protection
  - AI escalates the fraud arms race · CHALLENGES
24. 13 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS · 3 MENTIONS
  - AI plus human advisors as ideal wealth model
  - AI execution agents as next fee surface
  - AI will optimize back office, not replace human advice
25. 13 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  CNBC FAST MONEY
  - Retail uses AI to trade like pros
26. 17 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO · CHALLENGES
  YET ANOTHER VALUE PODCAST
  - AI commoditization threat to banking profits
27. 17 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - AI agentic trading needs a skilled human driver
18 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES
- AI as an investment knowledge augmenter
19 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
TOP TRADERS UNPLUGGED
- AI as the decade's most important investing question
20 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS · 4 MENTIONS
- AI's current role: low-stakes financial automation
- Human advisors' key role in 'moments that matter'
- AI's role: execution, not high-stakes strategy
- AI statistics often overstate actual usage depth · THIS IDEA
24 AUG 2026 · 4D AGO
FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS
- Trust in AI agents built through incremental steps
25 AUG 2026 · 3D AGO
THE RATIONAL REMINDER PODCAST
- AI amplifies financial planner capacity and insight
25 AUG 2026 · 3D AGO
ON THE MARGIN
- Agentic economy needs a trust layer

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