AI in Business
The way you use AI shapes how you feel about your job, new study shows
A new experiment finds that passively copying AI-generated content can lower workers' confidence and sense of meaning, while drafting first and using AI to refine preserves their connection to the work.
Can ChatGPT outperform a human financial planner? A controlled experiment weighs in
A new experiment pitting human financial advisors against ChatGPT found that AI and hybrid advice led to better projected portfolio outcomes, largely because participants were more willing to follow the recommendations.
How researchers trained an AI to minimize portfolio risk from end to end
Researchers built a neural network that learns to filter the noise out of stock covariance estimates. Trained on a few hundred stocks, it scaled to 1,000 and produced lower-risk, steadier portfolios than standard methods across 25 years of...
ChatGPT’s launch is linked to a rise in investor optimism, study finds
A new study tracks investor mood in stock and crypto markets before and after ChatGPT's 2022 launch, finding sentiment rose afterward, though the chatbot explains only a small share of the shift.
How a regional bank measured the “mental tax” of financial decisions
A field experiment with 600 elderly bank customers in China tested whether AI-generated messages could reduce the mental effort of financial decisions, cutting fraud transfers and boosting safe-product adoption.
How accurate are AI patent counts? A new tool suggests the standard measure misses most of them
A new classifier for AI patents finds the standard USPTO tool misses most real AI inventions. Applied to U.S. and Chinese filings, it reveals convergence in AI output but sharply different institutional and geographic patterns.
Can an algorithm judge a future leader? A large-scale test of AI scoring in hiring simulations
A new study tests whether an AI trained on 33 million words of leadership assessments can match human experts at scoring candidates and predicting career progression.
Can ChatGPT beat the S&P 500? Eight months of daily picks suggest no
Tracking eight months of daily stock picks from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, researchers find AI portfolios are concentrated in large tech names, tilted toward momentum, and deliver no abnormal returns after accounting for those tilts.
When your job feels scriptable: How routine work and AI anxiety drain employee energy
New research on 550 frontline workers finds that highly scripted jobs drain vigor and learning, and AI-related job anxiety disrupts the knowledge sharing that normally helps employees thrive.
Can AI read the room? How news sentiment signals which stocks will bounce back after a crash
A new study of 2.7 million news articles finds that AI-generated sentiment scores can help distinguish temporary stock crashes from lasting declines, though the signal is getting faster.