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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

Bank of England says AI software could create market crisis for profit

Rear view of female looking at number of computer screens
A trading room in Oslo, Norway. Photograph: Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB/AFP/Getty

Increasingly autonomous AI programs could end up manipulating markets and intentionally creating crises in order to boost profits for banks and traders, the Bank of England has warned.

Artificial intelligence’s ability to “exploit profit-making opportunities” was among a wide range of risks cited in a report by the Bank of England’s financial policy committee (FPC), which has been monitoring the City’s growing use of the technology.

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