3 Steps to Demystify Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the new electricity. We hear it will fundamentally shift the balance of power between labor and capital, mostly by rendering labor obsolete. It will enable and empower transformative technologies that will rearrange the sociopolitical landscape and may lead to humanity’s transcendence (or extinction) within our lifetimes. As it changes the world, it will necessarily rewrite the rules of insurance. That’s the myth, and the nature of the headlines. Interestingly, insurance is heavy on intellectual property (think of proprietary underwriting models), technology and data. And AI is hungry; hungry for data, of course, but also hungry for systems that can be automated and for proprietary classification problems that can be improved.