The Museum of American Finance reopened in Boston after nine years of homelessness. Their big draw is an AI Alexander Hamilton you can talk to about money. Nothing says cutting-edge financial education like a bot programmed to sound like a man who died in 1804 because he couldn't walk away from a argument.
Hamilton founded the first national bank and created the American financial system. He also got shot in the face by the vice president. The museum wants you to ask him about treasury bonds. They built an entire exhibit around letting tourists have conversations with code dressed up as the guy from the ten-dollar bill.
This is what happens when a board of directors gets high on their own mission statement. Someone pitched "interactive AI experience" in a conference room and nine people nodded because nobody wanted to look old. Now there's a chatbot dispensing economic theory from 220 years ago to people who can't figure out compound interest.
The museum was closed since 2017. Took them nearly a decade to find a new building and install a computer that pretends to be a Founding Father. That's slower than the SEC investigating anything.
Retail traders will visit this museum and ask AI Hamilton about meme stocks. The bot will explain the importance of sound monetary policy and federal credit. They'll nod along and immediately put their rent money into whatever coin some teenager promoted on Twitter. Hamilton didn't survive getting shot for this, but he didn't survive getting shot at all, so maybe the metaphor holds.
The real Hamilton would've hated every person who walks through those doors. He died in an era when you needed to own property to have opinions about markets. Now any dipsh*t with a Robinhood account thinks they're a f*cking investor because they bought fractional shares of Tesla at the top.
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