Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler is leaving his regulatory role to return to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His focus will now be on artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, finance, and public policy. Gensler will co-direct the FinTech AI @CSAIL initiative and teach a course on economic topics alongside Nobel laureate Simon Johnson.
After four years of steering crypto regulations and financial market oversight, former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler is returning to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Before leading the SEC, Gensler worked at Goldman Sachs and later became a professor at MIT, where he studied the impact of AI on financial systems and published research on the risks it could pose to global finance. Additionally, the academic will collaborate with Nobel laureate Simon Johnson to teach a course on economic topics billed as being “of great importance to the global economy.”
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