AIs Only Human?

Having been trained by humans on human information, do Large Language Models (LLM) behave like human investors? In their January 2026 paper entitled “Artificially Biased Intelligence: Does AI Think Like a Human Investor?”, Javad Keshavarz, Cayman Seagraves and Stace Sirmans investigate whether 48 widely used LLMs exhibit any of 11 known cognitive biases in financial decision-making. They speculate that LLMs acquire biases via human-authored training data, statistical learning and responses that reward perceived helpfulness over logical consistency. Specifically, they test whether:

• LLMs reliably exhibit economically meaningful cognitive biases in financial decision problems.
• Any biases vary across LLMs with different levels of intelligence.
• Users can intervene to suppress any biases in real-time LLM use.

Their prompt-pair methodology ensures that findings are causal rather than just correlational. Using 25 prompt-pairs per each of 11 biases across 48 LLMs, they find that: (more…)