Ken Griffin 'Fairly Depressed' After Watching AI Agents at Citadel Complete PhD-Level Finance Work in Days
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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin told Stanford students he went home one Friday 'fairly depressed' after watching agentic AI systems complete complex financial modeling and quantitative research in days that previously took teams of finance PhDs months. Elon Musk amplified the remarks. Griffin pointed to multi-step autonomous agent workflows as the key driver — a concrete enterprise signal that AI labor displacement has reached elite knowledge work.