Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant

Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant

Introducing the FT Tech Tonic podcast. You can subscribe and listen to the rest of the series here.


From picking the best stocks to listening in on earnings calls, AI-powered systems are changing finance. But how big are the rewards, really? And what are the risks? In this episode Robin Wigglesworth tells us how AI has been used in investing, what happens when programs must adapt to new risks and what the robots could learn from watching children play.


Alice Fordham is senior producer. Josh Gabert Doyon is assistant producer. Oluwakemi Aladesuyi and Liam Nolan are the development producers. Sound design and mixing by Breen Turner. Cheryl Brumley is the executive producer for this series. Original scoring composed by Metaphor Music.


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