As AI systems take on more decision-making in finance, the legal responsibility does not move with them. Sofia Khatsernova explains what the EU AI Act and UK SMCR demand from institutions deploying autonomous systems, and why meaningful control matters more than ever.
Workday conversational AI platform Sana for Workday is now ready to talk about IT Service Management (ITSM) automation as part of the company’s broader effort to help enterprises streamline workflows, especially across HR and finance, with autonomous AI agents.
The new Sana for ITSM capabilities are intended to automate workflows for employee on- and offboarding, access changes, and everyday IT requests.
Another new addition, the Travel agent, can help employees plan trips, book travel, and automatically manage expenses in one place, the company said.
The unification of cross-departmental workflows, according to Pareekh Jain, principal analyst at Pareekh Consulting, could provide significant advantages to CIOs: “If HR, finance, onboarding, access requests, payroll, travel, and IT support are tied together in one platform, enterprises can reduce friction, automate approvals faster, improve employee experience.”
“At the same time, Sana’s agentic backend will also get more organization co
Insider Brief Artificial intelligence may now be capable of writing nonprofit fundraising appeals that persuade audiences nearly as well as trained human communicators, according to a new study that tested whether readers reacted differently to emotional messages written by people or AI systems. The study, published in the Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, […]
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Stephen Ladyman suggests a question to ask artificial intelligence systems, while John van Someren is suspicious of advice he got from the AI assistant Claude
There is a test that Prof Richard Dawkins might use to determine if artificial intelligence systems are conscious (Letters, 15 May). Ask them to name the best song.
AI systems will tell you which song sold the most copies, or made the most money, or were named the best song by a particular magazine or commentator. All of these are objective criteria.
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