Both academic and nonacademic literature is evolving following the oscillating development of artificial intelligence (AI) and computing power's evolution in their application to finance and financial markets. The limits to economic growth encountered after the financial crisis and, successively, the recent pandemic bursts have posed new challenges to AI-related technologies. The surveyed publications have given hope in harvesting improved efficiency, new data, information, advisory and management services, risk mitigation, and some unanswered questions regarding negative impacts on sustainable growth and increasing economic welfare.