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AI's role: execution, not high-stakes strategy

The panel argued that AI is currently trusted for small-scale, tactical financial execution (like automated savings) but not for long-term, high-stakes strategic decisions like retirement 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 · THIS IDEA
- AI statistics often overstate actual usage depth
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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