AI, without controls, poses a risk for crypto investors

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The conversation around artificial intelligence risk has changed quickly. Organizations are no longer dealing only with inaccurate chatbot answers, biased outputs, or employees entering sensitive information into public tools. AI agents can now take actions, use external systems, write code, and pursue multistep objectives with limited supervision.

This shift creates serious implications for financial markets, particularly crypto. Digital assets trade continuously, smart contracts can execute automatically, and blockchain transactions can be difficult or impossible to reverse. When agentic AI is connected to wallets, exchanges, decentralized finance protocols, or payment…