A bot can be disciplined… until you give it a vague mission

Here is my least intuitive point: I do not think the sensible response is to ban all automation. A limited rule, such as maintaining a predetermined investment allocation, could be less impulsive than an investor who buys after reading every alarming headline. The bot does not get scared or need to recover losses out of pride. With well-defined boundaries, automation can protect us from certain human errors. The problem arises when we confuse that discipline with giving it an open-ended mission: “make money,” “find the best stocks,” “take advantage of every opportunity.” Those phrases are not strategies. They are wishes. A system capable of acting needs verifiable limits: what it can buy, how much it can risk, how often, and under what circumstances it must stay put. If I cannot explain those rules without the agent’s help, I would not feel comfortable letting it execute them either.

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