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Robinhood will let users connect AI agents to the platform, allowing them to place trades on their behalf.
Robinhood warns that AI-powered trading ‘involves significant risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment.’
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Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents. In an announcement on Wednesday, Robinhood says traders can now create a separate account for an AI agent and add a specific amount of money, allowing the agent to buy and sell stocks across the market.
The company pitches the feature as a way for traders to automate investment decisions, such as having an agent monitor specific industries and make trades, or rebalancing an existing portfolio. But it comes with a big warning from Robinhood:
Agentic trading involves significant risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. AI-driven strategies may perform poorly under certain market conditions, move quickly, and may be difficult to monitor or stop in real time… Robinhood does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of any agent output, and is not responsible for losses resulting from agent-generated decisions.
Though companies like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic view AI agents as the future, the technology isn’t quite living up to the hype of serving as full-fledged personal assistants capable of completing an array of tasks without human intervention. AI agents can be useful for coding, but asking them to buy things on your behalf or fill out online forms often isn’t efficient or accurate.