Next week, I will be at Tsinghua University in Beijing. On Tuesday, in the early afternoon, I will give three lectures for undergraduate students on the theme: ‘Three lectures on AI and its implications for actuarial (and/or financial) professions.’ These lectures explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and insurance. They begin from the observation that insurance has long relied on prediction, classification, and decision-making under uncertainty, well before the recent rise of AI. AI therefore does not introduce these issues from scratch, but changes … <a …

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