"I've got to tell you, I went home one Friday, actually fairly depressed. You could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society."
"The catalyst was watching what AI was actually doing inside Citadel. Griffin said the technology had become "profoundly more powerful" than it was just months ago, enabling the firm to "unleash" a broader range of use cases it hadn't previously been able to pursue."
"For Griffin, the most striking proof isn't in coding or content-it's in high-end financial research. Work that Citadel would previously have assigned to teams with master's degrees and PhDs in finance, work that took weeks or months, is now being completed by AI agents in hours or days."
"Earlier this month, in a conversation at Stanford Business School, Griffin described a jarring personal reckoning. "I've got to tell you, I went home one Friday, actually fairly depressed," he said. "You could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society.""
Ken Griffin shifted from calling AI “garbage” to warning that it will fundamentally reshape society. He described going home “depressed” after seeing how AI could affect society. The change followed observing AI capabilities inside Citadel that became “profoundly more powerful” in months, allowing the firm to pursue broader use cases. He also reported hearing “six or seven extraordinary stories” from CEOs about using AI to transform businesses. In finance, he emphasized that AI agents now complete complex research previously handled by teams with master’s and PhDs in finance, reducing timelines from weeks or months to hours or days.
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