Expert: Matthew Fleissig (Pathstone CEO), Michael Zeuner (WE Family Offices), Pamela Lucina (Northern Trust), Wealth industry executives interviewed by CNBC Inside Wealth Wealth managers are seeing a new kind of risk: clients running their portfolio recommendations, trust documents, and tax questions through consumer AI chatbots. In documented cases, the results were materially wrong. CNBC's Inside Wealth (July 30, 2026) reported a client who was told two ETFs were identical when one was equal-weight and the other cap-weighted — a distinction that changes the risk profile of the holding. Another case involved an LLM that completely botched capital gains tax math when asked for savings examples. In a third, a chatbot hallucinated details of an uploaded trust document when the client questioned it days later. The experts are blunt about the danger. Michael Zeuner of WE Family Offices warns clients may be unable to 'differentiate between a hallucination or an error of fact versus a good insight.' Pamela Lucina of Northern Trust says that 'more often than not, especially on the advice side, it's wrong.' Pathstone CEO Matthew Fleissig calls ChatGPT 'the single largest investment advisor in the world right now' — which is precisely why its errors are so dangerous. Advisors also flag a second risk beyond accuracy: clients using personal (non-enterprise) accounts expose identifying financial information when they upload trust documents or account statements to consumer chatbots. If you are getting financial advice from an AI chatbot, treat it as a starting point for discussion with a licensed advisor — not as a second opinion on your actual portfolio. A wrong answer on tax math or fund structure can cost real money. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/wealth-managers-ai-chatbots.html