Insurance trends

Insurance companies around the world confront similar challenges – AI disruption, climate-driven losses, market instability and regulatory volatility. It’s harder than ever to keep pace and maintain resilience while doing the routine business of keeping customers happy, detecting fraud, ensuring compliance, managing risks and delivering profitability.
AI can help – but insurers need to be able to explain decisions to internal stakeholders, regulators and customers, and detect when an AI model starts drifting into unfairness as data, behavior and economic conditions change. Getting that right reduces risk and builds the kind of trust on which insurance depends. As insurance companies scale their use of AI models, transparency and explainability become even more complex. That’s why it’s crucial to implement AI safeguards and understand the steps to ensure safe model use.

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A Fortune 500 insurer will begin phasing out policy admin systems in favor of insurance copilots in 2026. Some large insurers have already signaled their intent to invest big in AI technologies. And SAS’ survey data shows that insurance executives have a high level of trust in generative AI – twice as high as for machine learning, in fact.

Franklin Manchester

Franklin Manchester
Global Insurance Strategic Advisor

Global Insurance Trends

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