I have been part of several panel discussions on artificial intelligence (AI), data and tech ethics in recent months. Each time, usually about halfway through, the following sort of question is posed: “What do you think we should do to manage the risks of AI bias?”. This short essay is a more considered answer than my usual ‘top of mind’ response to this question.
The field of statistics has a very rich and colourful history with plenty of interesting stories. Milton Lim describes his personal favourite – Carl Friedrich Gauss’ discovery of the method of least squares and the normal distribution to solve a particularly thorny problem in astronomy. So where did the ubiquitous bell curve originate from?
In the first of a series of articles on an actuarial perspective of the energy sector, Peter Eben, Azhar Khan, Matthew Legg and Daniel Teng introduce the National Electricity Market and its main participants.
While insurance principles have been used for centuries, the industry has been quick to adopt new technologies, including investing in insurtech startups to benefit from disruptive ideas. Many of the developments in insurance that attracts headlines is around the impact of analytics on automation, distribution channels or transaction models on growth and profitability.
Posted 10 December 2020
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