# In an interview, Professor Vasant Dhar discusses the challenges presented by integrating AI into transportation and finance

1 Faculty News March 15, 2019 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-03-15/surveillance-this-ai-cycle-is-different-dhar-says-podcast) -- (23:25) "In finance, as strange as it may sound, \[integrating AI\] is an easier problem than automated cars and autopilot in cockpits, where the consequences of error are really large. In finance, you can actually look at the distributions... you have to have expectations about how often the machine will be wrong."

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