Overview
- Speaking at Stanford Business School, Griffin said Citadel’s AI agents now complete high-skill finance research in hours or days that once took teams weeks or months.
- He described a recent step change in capability, calling today’s tools profoundly more powerful than nine months ago and saying the speed left him feeling depressed.
- He emphasized the disruption is hitting elite roles, with agentic AI systems carrying out multi-step tasks like data gathering, model building, testing, and synthesis.
- Citadel has expanded its AI use cases and reported sharp productivity gains, shifting value toward people who can direct, audit, and integrate these systems.
- Analysts say adoption at a firm of Citadel’s scale could reshape hiring and how markets process information across every asset class it trades.