14 October 2026
OpenAI's Joseph Kim predicts AI agents will take over finance work by 2027
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- Joseph Kim of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, gave a keynote on when AI tools become reliable enough to save real time.
- He argues finance work will rely less on Excel and PowerPoint, the spreadsheet and slide programs many analysts use daily.
- Kim predicts AI agents, programs that carry out multi-step tasks on their own, will handle generating investment ideas and trading.
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