# Should You Trust Your Money to a Robot?

1 Opinion October 2, 2015Professors [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar) and [Scott Galloway](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway) discuss whether humans should entrust their money to machines. Professor Dhar says the answer depends on how long these investments are held for. In high-frequency trading, machines have already taken over. Decisions are numerous and the pace is quick. There is a lot of data to learn from, and machines excel in this environment. Long-term investors, on the other hand, are far more insightful than machines. However, most human investors have done poorly even in long-term investments. So perhaps, the lesson is that the market cannot be beat.