Why AI Struggles with Analyzing Financial Data to Make Market Predictions and What AQR and BlackRock Say to Do About It

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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The 2024 Morningstar Investment Conference is in the books, and as would be expected, artificial intelligence and machine learning were major topics.

In a panel entitled "Back to the Future: AI and Machine Learning," Michele Aghassi of AQR Capital, Kevin Franklin of BlackRock, Kathryn Kaminski of AlphaSimplex, and Gilbert Haddad of Fidelity discussed the implications for financial research.

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.