I'm already a bit tired of this cult of AI in trading. It feels like people have sold the old dream again — only now not through a 'secret strategy', but through the trendy word AI.
Yes, AI can be useful: quickly gather news, filter out the junk, highlight ideas. But when I hear that a bot 'sees everything itself' and 'trades better than a human', my skepticism kicks in immediately. Because the market doesn't become safer just because an error now has a nice interface.
And there are already plenty of real-life examples. The SEC in 2025 specifically noted the rise in fraud using new technologies, including AI, and later even uncovered a scheme where people were lured by supposedly AI investment advice and fake crypto platforms.
Here’s what annoys me the most: AI today is often used not as a tool, but as a way to turn off a person's brain. Like, don't think, don't analyze, just trust the algorithm. And then it suddenly turns out that the algorithm doesn’t sense the market, doesn’t save you from a downturn, and can’t distinguish a strong asset from nicely packaged trash.
So I would say this: AI in crypto is an assistant, but not a prophet. It can speed up work, but it does not eliminate risk, discipline, and keeping a level head. And if someone promises that a neural network will consistently generate profit for you — that is complete nonsense 🤭.