Shivan Mansingh | Founder & CEO | Vedant | mail me |
Artificial intelligence has constantly been written about for the past three years. The hype, the digital transformation it promises, the productivity gains, and the threat to jobs, particularly in professional services, and finance, specifically. It is a topical and sometimes divisive subject.
At the same time, many of us have already started using these tools. We are quietly inputting data into ChatGPT and similar LLMs to get answers we did not know, or to do work faster than we used to. And, this is often done without fully understanding the data privacy implications, or the quality of the responses we are getting back. Hallucinations are now a daily part of the AI experience, and only those with deep subject knowledge can spot them. That gap between what AI is doing for us and what we understand about how it works is, in my view, the single biggest risk in finance today.
The question worth asking – sitting here in South Africa in 2026 – is whether anything has actually changed. Is this really a turning point, or is it more of the same hype on a longer timeline? My answer is that yes, something has changed.
The CFO question that matters
Whatever side of the AI debate you sit on – hype-and-excitement or doomsday – the question a CFO has to answer is…
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