When Dan, a 41-year-old software engineer from Florida, was wondering how to invest the excess cash in his Individual Retirement Account, he turned to ChatGPT for advice.
Initially looking for one investment to complement his existing portfolio, which included a large real estate mortgage Reit and a fund focused on dividend leaders, he ended up overhauling the whole $200,000 portfolio based on a compelling case made by the chatbot.
After telling ChatGPT how much he had in different holdings and how much cash he wanted to deploy, the AI told him that his risk exposure was too concentrated and he would be better off putting 80 per cent into a broad market equity index tracker and the remainder into a bond ETF — which could stay put for decades.