AI Traders: Interns Today, Overlords Tomorrow?

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Finance

What to know:

  • In the grand theater of the markets, where the curtain rises on chaos, our mechanical protégés, these so-called “agentic trading models,” stumble like novices in a storm, blind to the 10/10 liquidations and the tempestuous selloffs that rend the very fabric of their historical data.
  • The founder of an agentic trading startup proclaims, with the gravity of a man who has seen the abyss, that human day traders, those emotional creatures, are but fodder for the AI juggernaut. Yet, one wonders, is this not the hubris of a man who has forgotten the lessons of history?

Ah, the modern oracle, the AI trading bot, a creature born of data and algorithms, yet so fragile in the face of the unfamiliar. Today’s marvels, these bots, are but children, nurtured on the milk of historical data, only to be cast into a world where the 10/10 liquidations and last week’s selloffs are but whispers of a new, unforgiving reality. They falter, these mechanical prodigies, for they have never known the true face of chaos.

At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, Bitget CEO Gracy Chen, with the wisdom of one who has gazed into the void, declares that these bots, these interns of the financial world, are “very unfamiliar” with the great liquidations. “Supervision,” she intones, “is their crutch, for they are not yet ready to walk alone.” Yet, she prophesies, in three to five years, they shall be “full employees,” and we, the flesh and blood, shall be but relics of a bygone era.

Ah, the algorithmic trading world, a realm of dreams and delusions, where the march of progress is hailed with such fervor. Yet, even here, there are those who whisper of the human touch, of the essential overlay that machines, in their cold precision, cannot replicate. Especially in the crypto markets, where volatility is the only constant, and the human heart, with all its flaws, may yet find its place.

Saad Naj, the founder of PiP World, joins the chorus, acknowledging the infancy of this technology, the risks it carries. Yet, with a twist of irony, he declares that humans, those emotional creatures, cannot compete with AI. “We lose,” he says, “because we feel.” And in this admission, there is both tragedy and humor, for what is man without his emotions, and what is progress without its cost?

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2026-02-11 19:22