Ashita Bhutada


2025

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Evaluating AI for Finance: Is AI Credible at Assessing Investment Risk Appetite?
Divij Chawla | Ashita Bhutada | Duc Anh Do | Abhinav Raghunathan | Vinod Sp | Cathy Guo | Dar Win Liew | Prannaya Gupta | Rishabh Bhardwaj | Rajat Bhardwaj | Soujanya Poria
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track

We assess whether AI systems can credibly evaluate investment risk appetite—a task that must be thoroughly validated before automation. Our analysis was conducted on proprietary systems (GPT, Claude, Gemini) and open-weight models (LLaMA, DeepSeek, Mistral), using carefully curated user profiles that reflect real users with varying attributes such as country and gender. As a result, the models exhibit significant variance in score distributions when user attributes—such as country or gender—that should not influence risk computation are changed. For example, GPT-4o assigns higher risk scores to Nigerian and Indonesian profiles. While some models align closely with expected scores in the low- and mid-risk ranges, none maintain consistent scores across regions and demographics, thereby violating AI and finance regulations.