# Professor Vasant Dhar is quoted in a feature story on AI-powered hedge funds

1 Faculty News September 7, 2018 ![Bloomberg Quint logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloombergquint192x144_0.jpg?itok=PhjNVqwf)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg Quint](https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/2018/09/07/ai-hedge-fund-sentient-is-said-to-shut-after-less-than-two-years#gs.BxiogBI) -- "'Just because you have special tech and AI doesn’t mean you’re off to the races,' said Vasant Dhar, a professor at New York University who has run an AI-powered hedge fund for about a decade. 'This tech is interesting but fraught with all kinds of risks.'"

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