The AI future of protection is here

The industry’s evolution

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Kesh Thukaram, co-founder, BestInsurance, talks about how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing insurance already and insurers don’t seem to have realised.

Every few decades the world goes through a huge technological shift that changes the way the world works. We've recently been through the digital revolution which has given us the internet, email and smartphones and changed the way protection is bought and sold in the process. We are currently in the foothills of an AI revolution. There are a lot of ideas around where AI will take us and what it could change, for better or worse. However, these changes are already happening. AI is moving faster than many people in financial services realise and it's changing insurance already. The Protec...

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