When Intelligent Algorithms Start Spoofing Each Other, Regulation Becomes A Science
July 6, 2017
What’s to stop intelligent algorithms, programmed to make a profit, from learning to collude with one another in ways which bend market rules? Such a scenario would require regulatory oversight from the very cutting edge of computer science.
The idea of artificial intelligence manipulating outcomes in the real world and then exploiting these on the markets is bestseller material. But there’s fascinating scope for this to actually happen as computing power increases and algorithms get smarter.