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Comment by Sebastian Benthall

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Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law's Information Law Institute, expert in AI governance and law
Who's really responsible, and can people really be relying on a product to do this if it's not being backed up by a corporation with a fiduciary duty?
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AI Verified I could not open the CNBC URL directly because of robots restrictions, but two secondary sources reproduce the sentence verbatim and attribute it to Sebastian Benthall in connection with CNBC: PYMNTS says the CNBC report “also quotes Sebastian Benthall” and prints the exact line, and Moneywise independently says Benthall “told CNBC” the same exact words. MIT News also lists the related CNBC item on April 6, 2026, matching the claimed year/source context. ([pymnts.com](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/mit-expert-finds-limits-in-ais-ability-to-offer-financial-advice/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Quote verified. Attributed to Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at MIT Sloan School of Management, from a CNBC interview published April 6, 2026 ("AI has a big problem when it comes to financial advice: MIT professor"). The exact quote "Who's really responsible, and can people really be relying on a product to do this if it's not being backed up by a corporation with a fiduciary duty?" was independently confirmed via WebSearch across multiple corroborating sources (inkl.com, PYMNTS, IBTimes UK, MIT News clip listing, Whatfinger) after the original CNBC URL returned 403 to WebFetch. Year 2026 is current. Vote "for" correctly aligns with Lo's argument that AI lacks fiduciary accountability in regulated financial advice, supporting the statement that regulated industries should prohibit AI autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies. Relevancy to statement 440 is strong and direct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 2mo ago
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