The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges with a trading firm that allegedly lied to investors about its claimed use of artificial intelligence (AI) to perform automated trading of cryptocurrency and other assets.

Itai Liptz, owner and CEO of investment firms Rimar LLC and Rimar USA, and Cliffard Boro, a Rimar USA board member, raised nearly $4 million from 45 investors by claiming that it could use AI to trade crypto, equities, bonds, and other investments, the SEC said Thursday.

But in reality, there was no use of AI, the SEC alleged—and the claims of using emerging technology were just “buzzwords” used to fool investors in what the agency described as “AI-washing.”

The Burlingame, California-based Rimar USA agreed to settle the charges and pay $310,000 in total civil penalties without admitting or denying the regulator’s findings.

“Through entities he controlled, Liptz lured investors and clients with multiple fabrications, including with buzzwords about the latest AI technology,” Andrew Dean, Co-Chief of the SEC’s Asset Management Unit, said in a Thursday release.

The lawsuit further alleged that despite Rimar claiming to have “an artificial intelligen

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Author: Mathew Di Salvo