Is AI the broker’s saviour or their nemesis?
As artificial intelligence moves closer to customers and advice, David Worsfold points out the industry faces its biggest existential question yet: where does the broker fit in?
For many brokers who are rolling out artificial intelligence across their businesses and watching it slash costs and speed up once laborious, bureaucratic workflows, it must seem like a saviour.
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