February 2017, insurance press is swarmed with predictions based on Carl Frey’s study that robots are coming and “topping the list of jobs at risk of being automated are insurance underwriters, with a 98.9% probability of being replaced by robots”. 6 years have passed and here we are, World Economic Forum marks Insurance underwriters as those who are “most likely to benefit from AI augmentation – 100% of their tasks have the potential to be augmented, the Jobs of Tomorrow report says”.

Together with my guest, Artur Niemczewski, Non-Executive Director at Chartered Insurance Institute, we discuss how the job of underwriter went from endangered to potentially 100% AI augmented in 6 years. And this time, we have a mystery guest as well…