OpenAI and Anthropic discuss financial agent autonomy and safety
What happened
On 15 October 2026, Latent Space reported that at an AIE New York event, Joseph Kim, who leads ChatGPT for financial services at OpenAI, discussed the autonomy and safety-boundary design of financial agents. He proposed the concept of a "usefulness threshold", the point at which a model is reliable enough to save time, and predicted that by 2027 the financial industry will reduce its reliance on Excel and PowerPoint, with agents able to generate investment ideas and execute trades. The report did not mention any specific remarks from Anthropic, and the event so far is limited to OpenAI's views expressed at a public event.
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- Latent SpaceCrossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents
At AI Engineer New York, frontier labs and financial firms explored how to give agents useful autonomy while keeping consequential decisions under control.
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