Ara Kharazian

And so I read it because it's normally just like pretty good

write ups like it's not necessary it's not an ad it's just like sponsored by Deloitte about what CFOs are thinking about and so the headline was something about how like this is how the big four all the big four accounting firms are doing AI okay that's an interesting thing for Deloitte to sponsor and

And it goes, talks about how KPMG is implementing agents for this task and PY, PWC is doing this thing and EY is doing all these experiments where they're giving their employees access to this and that thing.

And then it said, Deloitte is actually taking a much more hedged approach.

We think it will be something that improves our workers and augments them, but not replaces them.

And it was fascinating.

Because I actually wasn't sure until I got to the Deloitte part why they were doing this advertisement for the other accounting firms.

And then I realized, oh, this is an explicit effort by Deloitte to position itself as not anti-AI, but certainly a little bit more conservative about its implementation of AI.

And it's directly counter how the other accounting firms are positioning themselves.

And by the way, how a lot of companies are positioning themselves as firms that are actively adopting it and trying to sell to their clients and let firms, their customers know that, hey, we're sort of on top of this new technology.

We're going to offer you something that accounts for it.

And, you know, it's going to make us better accountants at the end of the day, something like that.

Now, I'm on the side of, I generally err to the side of, hey, technological adoption is good.

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Obviously, do it intelligently.

Don't unleash a product that doesn't make sense or that messes up your customers' audits, especially in something like finance and accounting.

But I was surprised about Deloitte's positioning.

And so I think it goes to show you that not every...

firm, legacy or not, is responding to these transformations in the same way.

And many firms are actually quite hesitant to implement AI, at least implementing AI particularly quickly.