With AI, it's so much easier to [use data to counter speculative attributions]. I saw someone attributing gold's new high to the uncertainty caused by the U.S. government shutdown. But after asking teachers GPT and Grok to run the numbers, we found: In the past 30 years, before the 5 U.S. government shutdowns, gold sometimes went up slightly, sometimes stayed flat, and sometimes dropped slightly—conclusion: no correlation whatsoever