PwC AI Predictions: Are You Ready for Finance's Digital Future?

When it comes to automation and artificial intelligence (AI), the future is now for the CFO. It's not because AI is upending the structure of the finance labor market; that effect likely won't be felt for many years, as we point out in our AI predictions for 2018. And it's not because finance functions are struggling to hire computer science Ph.D.s with machine learning expertise. The future is now because all finance staff, not coders, need to make a big adjustment. Automation is the future, but professionals are the present.