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Weekly Briefing #11: Is Wall Street Destined For Planet Of The Robots?
Welcome to our 11th addition of The FR. This week, we discuss the coming of the robots to financial services and the Bitcoin civil war. We also take a look at "stack fallacy," Max Levchin's Affirm, IEX, Cornell's tech-infused MBA and the little digital bank on the prairie. Is Wall Street destined for Planet of the Robos? According to George Mason University's Robin D. Hanson, it's not a question of if but when the jobs of highly skilled, specialized workers are automated, since computers eventually will have the "mental powers" to do everything humans now do and more (See here).