Aug 31, 2026 · 14 min · 7 segments
There are two questions buried inside this one, and they have opposite answers. Can AI invest better than a human? Yes. Easily. It has no emotion, and emotion is where most of the damage gets done…
Can AI, can artificial intelligence do a better job investing than a human? Absolutely, yes.
And the reason I'm going to tell you that it absolutely can is is because it's artificial.
And one thing we know about investors and returns and net returns is that the market's going to give you the return.
And the human behavior and the fear and the greed and the moving money around and trying to beat your neighbor or trying to beat...
some index or something like that that's what gets in the way of actually getting the returns that the market will give you and ai doesn't have that problem Here's the issue.
If you as a human want AI to do that for you, you have to give it this artificial intelligence or at some point artificial general intelligence.
Maybe you have to give it full authority over all of your finances, not just your market based instruments, but everything.
I mean, if you think about it, you'd have to open up all of your bank accounts to it.
You have to literally give it trading authority and cash flow authority and tax making authority tax decisions over all of your stuff forever.
Arguably, you'd have to do it not just for yourself, but your spouse and maybe even your kids as you move forward.
Is it anything that I think anybody I know would actually want to have happen? And the answer to that is no, because if you give full authority to anybody else, forget even AI, just anybody else, then that other entity is now going to tell you not just when you can buy and sell positions, but when you can actually take the money and use it.
Imagine a situation where you're letting AI run your entire balance sheet and you decide you want to put a pool in the backyard.
Ask me why I'm thinking about that right now, because we're thinking about a pool.
Can AI, can artificial intelligence do a better job investing than a human? Absolutely, yes.
And the reason I'm going to tell you that it absolutely can is is because it's artificial.
And one thing we know about investors and returns and net returns is that the market's going to give you the return.
And the human behavior and the fear and the greed and the moving money around and trying to beat your neighbor or trying to beat...
some index or something like that that's what gets in the way of actually getting the returns that the market will give you and ai doesn't have that problem Here's the issue.
If you as a human want AI to do that for you, you have to give it this artificial intelligence or at some point artificial general intelligence.
Maybe you have to give it full authority over all of your finances, not just your market based instruments, but everything.
I mean, if you think about it, you'd have to open up all of your bank accounts to it.
You have to literally give it trading authority and cash flow authority and tax making authority tax decisions over all of your stuff forever.
Arguably, you'd have to do it not just for yourself, but your spouse and maybe even your kids as you move forward.
Is it anything that I think anybody I know would actually want to have happen? And the answer to that is no, because if you give full authority to anybody else, forget even AI, just anybody else, then that other entity is now going to tell you not just when you can buy and sell positions, but when you can actually take the money and use it.
Imagine a situation where you're letting AI run your entire balance sheet and you decide you want to put a pool in the backyard.
Ask me why I'm thinking about that right now, because we're thinking about a pool.
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