Warren Buffett says to 'make money while you sleep.' AI agents may be the answer, Robinhood CEO says.

"If you don't discover a way to create prosperity during you sleep, you volition activity until you die."

That celebrated Warren Buffett row stresses the need to allocate in businesses, genuine estate, and another resources that create passive earnings specified as dividends and rent.

Buffett has lengthy warned that if you depend solely on your pay and neglect to put your prosperity to activity or build another earnings streams, you'll have to activity for a pay your complete life.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev projected a new-age substitute during the latest event of the "Sources" podcast. His "North Star" is that "everyone should have a squad of agents that's productive during they sleep," he said.

Tenev was referring to AI agents — systems that can autonomously execute tasks by reasoning, planning, using tools, taking actions, and communicating alongside humans and another agents.

Early adopters are using agents to oversee their emails and calendars, build apps and websites, and grip a broad range of regular tasks.

Tenev's imagination is that everyone volition have agents working for them at all hours, supercharging their efficiency and possibly diversifying their earnings streams.

"I see a earth anywhere a large portion of the selling quantity for an idiosyncratic investor, for our client basis writ large, is generated by AI agents," he said.

Tenev stated that's since agents "don't have a lot of the restrictions that we have as individual traders." They can run 24/7, commerce multiple asset classes simultaneously, and can effortlessly navigate selling opportunities on Robinhood's app, he explained.

However, Tenev additionally stated agents necessitate supervision, suggesting they won't be a set-it-and-forget-it passive earnings stream.

"Each individual have to be a 24/7 delegate manager," he said. "Your job becomes managing your agents."

That appears much additional demanding than receiving a dividend check in the mail. But it's uncomplicated to ideate group earning earnings from multiple sources by allocating agents to distinct tasks.

Buffett hasn't publically endorsed AI agents as a way to separation earnings from work, and there's no justify he will.

It's value noting that the legendary capitalist and erstwhile Berkshire Hathaway CEO and chairman was critical of Robinhood during its epidemic surge in 2021.

He accused the selling app of encouraging users to treat the inventory market akin a casino and gamble using options and leveraged positions.

A Robinhood spokesman told Business Insider at the time: "The new generation of investors aren't a 'casino group.' They are tearing downward old barriers to investing and taking authority of their financial futures. Robinhood is on the correct flank of history."