{"id":68986,"date":"2025-10-09T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/68986\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:52:10","slug":"the-indicator-from-planet-money-npr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/68986\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759996330_70_\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3377x1900+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fce%2Fe5%2F643fd0e442aa8b78e2ac748af41c%2F8d0c5989-937e-45d3-8747-71869a22cda5.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                AI is making markets smarter \u2026 and scarier. What happens when trading bots start to collude?<\/p>\n<p>                    Jackie Lay\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Jackie Lay\/NPR<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Market manipulation is an age-old issue. People trying to make money off unsuspecting investors by artificially influencing the price of a stock, say. But what happens when the one manipulating markets isn&#8217;t human?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This week on The Indicator from Planet Money, we bring you five episodes digging into the evolving business of crime. Today on the show, we hear how AI could spell mischief for the markets, and why the law is already behind in preventing it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Related episodes: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/04\/nx-s1-5527315\/how-much-is-ai-actually-affecting-the-workforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How much is AI actually affecting the workforce?<\/a>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2015\/03\/06\/391023353\/episode-608-shorters-gonna-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shorters Gonna Short<\/a>\u00a0For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>. Fact-checking by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1268825622\/sierra-juarez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sierra Juarez<\/a>. Music by <a href=\"https:\/\/dropelectric.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drop Electric<\/a>. Find us: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@planetmoney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/planetmoney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/planetmoney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newsletter<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI is making markets smarter \u2026 and scarier. What happens when trading bots start to collude? Jackie Lay\/NPR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[72,61,60,123],"class_list":["post-68986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}