Why AI Is Here to Help Accountants – Not Replace Them

With artificial intelligence (AI) technology maturing, there are many other roles and jobs that are set to be replaced. For example, AI can pick up trends in massive data sets that a human being would be unable to match. So, are accountants going to be replaced by AI? (Hint: we don't think so.) Those arguing for the replacement of accountants by AI have misunderstood some key elements of the two. Their argument, simply put, is that as the world gets digitized, computers will take care of any manual work previously done by humans – including accounting.