JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest U.S. bank, has been wading into artificial intelligence to a greater extent than its rivals and is now producing a series of research notes that are AI-generated.The move represents something of a step forward in an area that’s been seen as ripe for disruption — investment research — at a time when the AI revolution is taking hold on Wall Street.
The move represents something of a step forward in an area that’s been seen as ripe for disruption — investment research — at a time when the AI revolution is taking hold on Wall Street. At JPMorgan, AI is being used to create short summaries of human-produced reports and then link those reports inside the firm’s Cross Asset Spotlight.
In a disclaimer attached to JPMorgan’s Cross Asset Spotlight note, primary authors Thomas Salopek and Federico Manicardi cited the large amount of content that investors need to sift through in constantly-moving markets as part of the reason that AI is being used.
“It certainly is still relatively unusual, but I think analyst jobs are safe for now,” Wagner said in an email to MarketWatch. “It’s an interesting development that shows how AI-driven automation could impact labor markets. If relatively repetitive ‘knowledge work’ can be automated in this fashion, banks and law firms may not need as many lower-level employees as they do today.”