About this episode

The episode explores the impact of AI on decision-making quality and discusses trends in AI technology.

AI has changed how quickly we can gather and understand information, but what is it doing to the quality of our decisions? In this week's podcast, Alex Joshi, Head of Behavioural Finance, and Rob Smith, AI and Data Science Strategist, join Julien Lafargue, our Chief Market Strategist, to explore 'cognitive surrender' and consider how to keep making good decisions. They also discuss the shift from AI chatbots to AI agents, the rising costs of using AI agents and the anticipated trends that could be seen over the rest of the year.

People in this episode

Host: Julien Lafargue

Guests: Alex Joshi, Rob Smith

Topics covered

• Artificial Intelligence
• decision making
• cognitive surrender
• AI agents
• market trends

Keywords

• AI
• decision making
• cognitive surrender
• AI agents
• market trends

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Organizations: Barclays Private Bank

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