The Robot Invasion of Finance Has Begun

What'll it be next...D3 lacrosse? The Economist this week laid out just how quickly automation is taking over finance. Funds run by computers that follow human-set rules account for... Last month, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds automatically tracking stock and bond indices hit $4.3 trillion invested in American equities, surpassing the sum run by humans for the first time. Nobody's going to get hurt when Alexa messes up the weather forecast.