Are AI Risks Priced in the U.S. Stock Market? Evidence from Financial News Factors
This paper asks whether firms'exposures to news about different types of AI risk are priced in U.S. stock returns. Using AI and risk keywords, I identify 7,787 Wall Street Journal articles from January 2016 to December 2025. I combine latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) with the Domain Taxonomy in the MIT AI Risk Reposit...