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Most adults willing to embrace AI for improved retirement incomes

Open-access content Tuesday 20th March 2018 — updated 5.50pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020

Three-quarters of citizens across the UK, US, Australia, France, Germany and Singapore are willing to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve retirement incomes.

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That is according to new research by consultancy firm Accenture, which also finds that there are concerns the technology will not be used ethically. Read the full article on our Predictions site here

This article appeared in our March 2018 issue of The Actuary .
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