Don’t Take Financial Advice from AI

How AI gets simple finance wrong, and how to make it work for you, not mislead youTopics covered include:How AI ignores the time value of moneyA detailed example of ChatGPT misleading by making a simple math mistakeSome examples of opportunity costs and sunk costs when making financial decisionsUnderstanding how AI works can help us use it more effectivelySponsorsClaude.ai - Sign up for Claude today and get 50% off Claude ProMoney for the Rest of Us PlusInsiders Guide Email NewsletterGet our free Investors' Checklist when you sign up for the free Money for the Rest of Us email newsletterShow NotesWhat Kind of a “PhD-level Expert” Is ChatGPT 5.0? I Tested It. by Gary Smith—Mind MattersTop US Army General Says He’s Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions by Joe Wilkins—FuturismWhy Language Models Hallucinate by Adam Tauman Kalai, Ofir Nachum, et al—ArxivAuto Loan Calculator—nerdwalletRelated Episodes538: Forests, Fakes, and the Fight for the Real457: AI’s Fork in the Road: Societal Bliss or Existential Threat450: How Higher Interest Rates Alter Our Financial BlueprintSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.