Description: Artificial intelligence brings immense opportunities for productivity gains—and valid concerns. It can both support innovations in insurance products and in the customer experience as well as enhance our profession’s work. Actuaries share a responsibility for caution and professional judgment to use it without jeopardizing the fair and equitable treatment of individual consumers and the principals we serve.AI creates significant challenges for consumers: opacity, reliable accuracy, privacy, and verification of personal data. The Academy and its members have been working to educate and inform stakeholders, insurance commissioners, and regulators toward improving the transparency of algorithms that underlie the use of AI by insurers, to explain how the algorithms can be used to achieve equitable treatment, and to identify the issues and trade-offs related to ensuring consumer protections. We must amplify the actuarial perspective on how adequate disclosures, documentation, and governance of AI can help protect users. This session will examine how we can govern and support the evolution of better practices. We will discuss how AI is addressed via standards such as ASOP No. 56, Modeling, and other guardrails that are being developed to best utilize AI’s real-world potential and fulfill our professional responsibilities.

Description: This article explores recent regulatory developments, in the U.S. and the E.U. related to artificial intelligence, and briefly discusses steps insurers can take to get ahead of the curve.

Description: This article discusses how to get data into and out of R, an open source language for statistical computing.

Description: This is the first in a series of calls for essays on the impact of AI on mortality and longevity. For this call for essays, we are interested in the impact of AI on mortality and longevity modeling, forecasting and prediction.

Description: Dive into an overview of potential customer value propositions, trends in consumer acceptance and adoption, solving the data portability issue, potential impacts of emerging partner ships with OEMs and more within the auto insurance industry during our latest webcast. Experience interactive dialogue that will allow another dimension of thinking as industry experts provide insights and expertise. Throughout this webcast, you can expect developments in the personal lines automotive telematics-based insurance landscape that will develop a further understanding of the present and future of this industry.

Description: Learn to utilize one of the most requested skills in the actuarial science job advertisements. During this webcast, discover the benefits of programming, how to identify and explain complex technical information and ways to create stunning visuals with ggplot2, which exceed the capabilities of Excel. With your webcast attendance, you will receive a document with detailed explanations, codes and underlying data. Enjoy exercises which allow the creation of fully reproducible solutions. This means an easy reproduction of all presented plots learned during this webcast. Register and take the next step toward building enticing visualizations.

Description: Article on how new technology can help streamline contracting, licensing and new business workflow processes.