Actuaries Leading AI Adoption with Jared Spowart
Episode description
Tell us what you thought of this episode!
Jared is passionate about artificial intelligence and its potential to transform ways of working. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, with a career spanning two decades within the Life Insurance industry. He is currently the Head of Actuarial Systems, Data, and Process Optimization at AIA. His focus is on harnessing AI to boost company-wide productivity and empowering actuaries to be at the forefront of responsible AI implementation.
Jared also recently delivered an innovative presentation at the Australian Actuaries Summit titled ‘The Artificial Actuary.’ In this presentation, he showcased how AI models can be transformed into artificial actuaries. Through an insurance repricing example, Jared demonstrated how artificial actuaries can leverage tools like projection models and collaborate to tackle more complex tasks.
In this interview, Jared shares:
- An illustration of how teams of artificial actuaries can perform actuarial work,
- The key skills human actuaries need to learn to thrive in an AI world,
- How human leaders will need to change as society embraces AI, and
- Why human actuaries should be at the forefront of AI adoption within our organisations.
Connect with Jared on LinkedIn.
Read Julia’s new book "Aspiring Actuarial Leaders: The Modern Manager’s Toolkit"
We are featured in the Top 15 Actuary Podcasts here on Feedspot.
Thank you for listening to the We Are Actuaries podcast. Connect with Julia and Guardian Actuarial on LinkedIn. For more interviews and articles, visit our website.