I went through the public AI claims of 396 fintech companies. Only 143 could show an agent that actually does anything
Summary
An analysis of 396 European fintech companies' public AI claims finds only 36% show evidence of true agents taking real actions in production, while the rest are copilots. It highlights the lack of published incident handling for wrong actions by production agents.
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