About this episode

The episode discusses the balance between AI and human judgment in strategy for community financial institutions.

In the latest episode of Digital Banking Podcast, host Josh DeTar welcomed Jamie Sumner, Partner at VB Sentry LLC. The episode centered around how community financial institutions could use AI to speed up analysis without losing the human judgment that drove strategy. Josh and Jamie traced that idea back to a shared view: AI handled the numbers, but people still had to ask better questions and make better decisions. Jamie explained how automation changed his own work. He moved from hours of m...

People in this episode

Host: Josh DeTar

Guest: Jamie Sumner

Topics covered

• AI
• strategy
• community financial institutions
• automation
• human judgment

Keywords

• AI
• strategy
• community financial institutions
• automation
• human judgment
• analysis
• decision making

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: VB Sentry LLC

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