Destination AI: Augmented automated underwriting and life insurance

Spend your working life identifying, analysing, quantifying and ascribing monetary value to risk, and you're likely to have a fairly strong aversion to it. Or more accurately, an aversion to undertaking new endeavours with inadequately understood consequences. The insurance industry is, on any number of levels, the very definition of risk-averse. And yet, insurance still has an appetite for innovation. If the insurtech sector is any indication, an interest in and requirement for new solutions has been recognised and is being addressed.