He brought AI to Wall Street in 1994 — but won’t trust ChatGPT with his money
In 1994 he left academia to bring machine learning to Wall Street, then founded SCT Capital, one of the first hedge funds built entirely on machine-driven trading. His firm’s algorithms still trade markets every day.Dhar is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and the NYU Center for Data Science, where his research centers on prediction, AI governance and a question he keeps returning to: When should people trust a machine over their own judgment?
- ▪In 1994 he left academia to bring machine learning to Wall Street, then founded SCT Capital, one of the first hedge funds built entirely on machine-driven trading.
- ▪His firm’s algorithms still trade markets every day.Dhar is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and the NYU Center for Data Science, where his research centers on prediction, AI governance and a question he keeps returning to: W
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