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The Aether Vector - Season 01 - Episode 04 - Why AI is Re-Wiring Financial Systems

The Aether Vector - Season 01 - Episode 04 - Why AI is Re-Wiring Financial Systems

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 Episode 04: Agentic AI and the New Control ProblemFor decades, banking systems were ledgers that waited for human permission—committees, memos, and sign-offs. But today, the systems inside your institution aren’t just executing your decisions; they are making them.In this episode, we explore the seismic shift from Generative AI (which produces content) to Agentic AI (which plans, decides, and acts). While this technology promises a revolution in productivity, it creates a fundamental "Control Problem" for modern finance: How do you govern something that never stops deciding?.What’s Inside the Episode:From Outputs to Actions: Why the transition from "passive" chatbots to "active" agents represents a point of no return for bank governance.The Breakdown of Traditional Risk: Why static documentation and quarterly reviews are insufficient for systems that recalibrate credit limits and fraud thresholds in real-time.The Enterprise Economics Triad: A deep dive into how independent agents in Marketing, Underwriting, and Payments can create systemic risk through "emergent behavior"—where no single model is wrong, but the system fails collectively.The "Quant Human" Archetype: Why the biggest risk to banks isn't a lack of raw intelligence, but a lack of "lattice-shaped" talent—leaders who can bridge the gap between complex algorithms and rigid regulation.A New Control Architecture: Shifting from "permission-based" oversight to an engineering discipline of continuous monitoring, kill-switches, and supervisory agents.Key Insight:"The moment a system can change its own operating context, the old governance model breaks."Banks have not lost control because AI became too powerful; they lost control because governance was designed for discrete decisions, not for continuous decision-makers. Join us as we examine how to reclaim that control and prepare for a future where trust is an architectural requirement.About the Aether Vector SeriesThis is the first of two special video podcasts exploring the intersection of advanced technology and institutional stability. Episode 04 identifies why the current control structures are cracking, setting the stage for Episode 05, where we explore the new frameworks of supervision, accountability, and power in an agentic world."When your systems decide, who decides the systems?"
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