Top quants on how AI will change some jobs and steal others
Coding skills will matter less and research skills more, say quants in Risk.net straw poll
This is the second of two features about the use of AI tools by quants in their daily work. The first looked at how banks and buy-side firms are using AI and the lessons they have drawn from experience so far. Because of the sensitivity of the topic, Risk.net has not named interviewees.
The release of newly powerful agentic AI systems since the start of the year has prompted a rethink among
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