
Citadel Founder Ken Griffin at the Stanford Leadership Forum 2026 discussing how AI agents compress elite analytical work from months into hours: "It has been interesting to watch...work that we would usually do with people with master's and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months, being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days. So these are not mid-tier white-collar jobs. These are like extraordinarily high-skilled jobs being ...automated by agentic AI. And I got to tell you, I went home one Friday, actually fairly depressed by this because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society."






















