Financial markets are being subjected to misinformation — spread by AI

Market manipulation is an old issue. People try to make money off unsuspecting investors by artificially influencing the price of a stock. But what about when the one manipulating markets isn’t human?

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As long as financial markets have existed, so has market manipulation. But what if the people engaging in market manipulation aren’t people at all? The indicators, Adrian Ma and Wailin Wong uncover how AI could disrupt financial markets.

ADRIAN MA, BYLINE: There are a lot of ways that AI can be used to manipulate financial markets, but to help

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