# Professor Xi Chen is interviewed about how machine learning will impact finance

Faculty News

— January 19, 2017

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Excerpt from [eFinancialCareers](http://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/271352/nyu-stern-professor-machine-learning-will-disrupt-employment/) -- "Machine learning technology will make many jobs obsolete – some will be replaced by machines in the future. Examples include driverless cars, automated trading systems, and robots as waiters and cleaning people, to name just a few. I think one way [to approach the problem of unemployment] is to provide people with a better education so that the next generation will be trained to perform jobs that machines are not competent in."

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