Herding
Dispatches on herding for AI agents in financial services.
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Dispatches on this topic
- Robinhood built its agent into the app and gave it a standing order. The fence is per account. The trigger is shared.
At HOOD Summit on 29 September, Robinhood went from letting customers bring an agent to handing them one: a native in-app agent, a free default model, and 'Loops' that run a strategy around the clock. Each account's losses are still capped by its own fence. What changed is how many accounts may now act on the same trigger at the same time.
- A press release claimed zero-defect autonomous rebalancing. No one signed it.
The strongest safety claim in this year's agent wave — "zero-defect regulatory compliance during autonomous rebalancing cycles" — was made on 28 July by an anonymous spokesperson, in a newswire release with no named executive and no named auditor. Grant every number anyway: a 94.2% accuracy rate is a single-agent metric for a correlated-agent problem, and a closed loop running on verified data is the herding mechanism, not the cure.