Until I read this, I hadn’t worried that I or any of my ilk might be replaced by robots, or AI at least, which to many a mind is the same thing. I remember Hal the computer in 2001, and of course the Daleks, although I think they’d be more likely to exterminate than advise. It should be the case that AI can help with or take over many of the repeatable processes which are required but time-consuming in our business; the production of those multi-page, regulatory back-covering suitability reports would be a prime example. AI is perhaps most needed by the big, corporate investment and pension providers, who, with huge IT departments, should be best placed to utilise it. Most, however, are still stuck in the 1980s, sending us a dozen or more letters each day; which we scan and bin, in despair. Not much hope there.
“Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation”
I suspect that many a ‘boomer’ might be pleased with the ‘problem generation’ label. When they were teen- or twenty-somethings, their parents’ generation may well have either despaired of them or worried about the world into which they were emerging as adults; it will ever be thus.