CFTC chief calls AI a road to 'autonomous trading'

The CFTC held its first Frontier Forum on Oct. 28, a new event series from its Innovation Task Force examining how AI could change U.S. derivatives markets. The agenda covered AI's impact on price discovery and risk management and how traders' own AI agents would operate under CFTC rules, with speakers from Ornn, Architect and Liquid Compute.

Chairman Mike Selig suggested AI agents could usher in a financial revolution — calling the path "autonomous trading" — while posing open questions about how the agency would police AI use in markets. The forum is the CFTC's latest step on AI and agentic finance as autonomous agents take a growing role in trading. CFTC agenda