MIT and Stanford Study: Following LLM Financial Advice Improves Financial Well-being
emollick · x · 2026-08-06
A new paper by researchers from MIT and Stanford finds that most people would be financially better off if they followed the financial advice of LLMs (such as GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Flash).
However, the quality of the advice some individuals receive can vary, which largely depends on how they phrase their questions and their prompt engineering skills.
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