The widespread use of common AI models could increase market correlations and amplify stress, and the institutions charged with safeguarding financial stability have identified this risk, but may be monitoring the wrong actors.

 

I Built an AI Trading Platform in Six Days. That’s Terrifying.

April 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT

By Darri Eythorsson

Darri Eythorsson is a computational hydrologist and research associate at the University of Calgary. He is the lead architect of SYMFLUENCE, an open-source hydrological modeling framework.