Ken Griffin on AI's Impact: fairly depressed

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May 17, 2026
Ken Griffin (founder and CEO of Citadel)
And for us at Citadel, that has allowed us to unleash a much broader array of use cases for AI.
And it has been really interesting to watch. To be blunt, work that we would usually do with people with master's and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days.

So these are not mid-tier white-collar jobs. These are like extraordinarily high-skilled jobs being I'm going to pick a word, being automated by agentic AI.

And I got to tell you, I went home one Friday. Actually fairly depressed by this because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society.
And when you witness it in your own four walls, when you see work that used to be man-years of work being done in days or weeks.