Finance: AI-Powered Trading Needn’t Be as Scary as it Sounds

Artificial intelligence operates at speeds and levels of complexity that its human creators can’t match. So what happens when it’s unleashed on financial markets?Nobody really knows. That needn’t be as scary as it sounds.Automated, high-speed trading has long dominated markets such as stocks, futures and foreign exchange, and has at times generated or amplified accidents, such as the 2010 “flash crash” that sent major US equity indices plunging more than 5% in a matter of minutes.AI will add a n