Comment by Simon Hoyle

In these situations, especially if the outcomes are below expectations, there must still be accountability within the asset owner organisation, and the buck ultimately stops, just as it does now, with the CIO.
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AI Verified The sentence appears verbatim in the body of the Top1000funds article at the supplied URL; the page byline credits Simon Hoyle and the page date is April 02, 2026, so the stored content, author, date, and source URL are consistent. Note that this is article prose written by Hoyle, not a quoted statement attributed to Will Cong. ([top1000funds.com](https://www.top1000funds.com/events/fis/fis-singapore-2026/ai-will-revolutionise-investing-but-machines-wont-carry-the-can/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The exact sentence appears on the Top1000funds page, but it is presented as reporter narration rather than a direct quotation from Will Cong. The article is authored by Simon Hoyle, and Cong’s clearly marked direct quote begins in the following sentence (“How do we hold accountability when mistakes or bad things happen?...”), so this wording is not verified as a verbatim Will Cong quote and is therefore misattributed as written. ([top1000funds.com](https://www.top1000funds.com/events/fis/fis-singapore-2026/ai-will-revolutionise-investing-but-machines-wont-carry-the-can/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified via WebSearch (WebFetch blocked with 403 on top1000funds.com). The article "AI will revolutionise investing, but machines won't carry the can" (Top1000funds.com, April 2026) is attributed to Will Cong, Professor and Associate Dean at Nanyang Business School/NTU, Singapore - matching author_id 4006. Multiple search result snippets independently confirm the quote's substance: "accountability within asset owner organisations still exists, and the buck ultimately stops with the CIO" and that "responsibility for investment outcomes will not shift to machines - the chief investment officer will still be held accountable." Vote "against" correctly aligns with the statement about prohibiting AI from autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies: Cong argues AI should be deployed in investing while humans (CIOs) retain accountability, which is a position AGAINST an outright prohibition. Year 2026 is correct per URL path and article context (Fiduciary Investors Symposium, Singapore, March 2026). Relevancy is strong - the quote directly addresses fiduciary accountability for AI-driven investment decisions. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 2mo ago
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