Don’t Take Financial Advice from AI

How AI gets simple finance wrong, and how to make it work for you, not mislead you Topics covered include: How AI ignores the time value of money A detailed example of ChatGPT misleading by making a simple math mistake Some examples of opportunity costs and sunk costs when making financial decisions Understanding how AI works can help us use it more effectively Sponsors Claude.ai - Sign up for Claude today and get 50% off Claude Pro Money for the Rest of Us Plus Insiders Guide Email Newsletter Get our free Investors' Checklist when you sign up for the free Money for the Rest of Us email newsletter Show Notes What Kind of a “PhD-level Expert” Is ChatGPT 5.0? I Tested It. by Gary Smith—Mind Matters Top US Army General Says He’s Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions by Joe Wilkins—Futurism Why Language Models Hallucinate by Adam Tauman Kalai, Ofir Nachum, et al—Arxiv Auto Loan Calculator—nerdwallet Related Episodes 538: Forests, Fakes, and the Fight for the Real 457: AI’s Fork in the Road: Societal Bliss or Existential Threat 450: How Higher Interest Rates Alter Our Financial Blueprint See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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Don’t Take Financial Advice from AI is an episode from Money For the Rest of Us by Money For the Rest of Us.

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This episode was published on Oct 22, 2025.

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