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[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

The worry isn't that HFT stops working. It's that it causes a failure state that brings down the legitimate parts of the financial sector.

Like how we're not worried about AI pilots malfunctioning and being grounded, the same way we'd worry about AI pilots malfunctioning and bombing humans.