Walter Todd

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198 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Business Daily · Taking Stock: Is your job safe from AI? · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

So it actually tracks the time you're holding it in front of you, which is kind of disconcerting.

It's scary, isn't it?

Sure.

Yeah.

So State Farm's the largest, um,

or at least they were the largest property and casualty and life and health insurer in the U.S.

I think they were recently overtaken by Progressive Insurance.

But they have 19,000 agents around the country, and they're typically known for opening offices in smaller communities as well as bigger cities, but really becoming kind of a part of the fabric of the community around the country.

And so that's some background on who they are.

And the company's over 100 years old.

It was founded in 1922.

Yeah, I think, you know, as it relates to this story about State Farm and how they're going to try to implement AI, I think companies in general have to be very careful and walk a fine line on this because we're seeing

we started the program, right, with the students walking out on the speech, and we've seen that around the country.

So there's starting to be some pushback on AI and, you know, technology use, et cetera, right now.

And companies themselves, and particularly State Farm, because they're known for this, is these personal relationships that you develop, and that's how you're successful at business.

And there's a real risk if you move too far one way on the technology front that you lose that.

And I think ultimately you lose business because of that.

And so

I think that's a risk as companies are evaluating how they use AI.

In our industry specifically, because we work with individuals very carefully on the financial situations and financial growth over time, we can't just farm that out to a machine.

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