William Finn: I think what they want to be doing is eliminating some of those more tedious manual tasks. And then freeing themselves up to do a lot more of the analysis, he says. He adds that you just can't really trust this technology yet and you have to sort of oversee it very closely. William Finn: A lot of banks are still figuring out how to implement these models. They're going to have to change their training processes in order to make them effective.
Ever pulled an all-nighter to prepare a pitch, or had your weekend ruined by a last-minute fire drill from your MD? Imagine if artificial intelligence could crunch the numbers and format the slidedeck for you. What would you do with the extra free time?
But also, what valuable, formative experiences might you miss out on if you could outsource rote tasks to technology? And how might that change the culture of your institution?
Everyone’s talking about AI, and how it could revolutionize basically everything. We wanted to figure out what it might mean — both good and bad — for the debt markets, so 9fin reporters William Hoffman and Shubham Saharan hit the phones for some philosophical conversations.
In this week’s episode of the podcast, we’re asking: is AI coming for your finance job?