At a Citadel Securities conference in New York, Ken Griffin said AI will make some stable white-collar roles obsolete and argued for serious reskilling. He also described Citadel’s core business as research and said its investment edge still depends on human creativity, ingenuity and analysis. Citadel stock pickers received AI assistants at the end of 2025, he said, and faster technology has given investment staff more time for research. He again warned against offloading human judgment. The reporting identifies Citadel as a $77 billion hedge fund; the event itself was at Citadel Securities. Business Insider
This is senior-operator evidence about a chosen division of labor, not proof that core research cannot be automated. The measurable boundary would include which tasks move to the assistant, which decisions remain with the investor, how often work is reviewed, and whether the reported increase in research time changes throughput or decision quality. The article supplies a deployment date and Griffin’s account of the benefit, not performance attribution.