Walk into the actuarial department of any major insurance firm, and you will find some of the most highly educated, analytically brilliant minds in the corporate world. Now ask them how they spend their time. The answer is rarely “building sophisticated risk models.” It is usually “wrestling with spreadsheets and formatting regulatory reports.”
In this episode, Ari Joury (PhD, particle physics; Founder & CEO of Wangari Global) breaks down the “Actuarial Time Trap” — the systemic misallocation of human capital in the insurance industry. He explains why traditional automation (RPA, ETL) has failed to solve the problem, and how agentic AI systems, grounded in causal reasoning, are finally providing a way out. And yes, he will explain why your RPA bot is basically a very fast, very stupid intern who panics if you move a button three pixels to the left.
Topics covered: Actuarial science, insurance industry, Solvency II, IFRS 17, regulatory reporting, RPA vs Agentic AI, causal AI, human capital allocation, enterprise automation.
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