There are other narratives going on in the background though both called out by the article and implied, including:
Brenda probably has annual refresher courses on GAAP, while her exec and the AI don't.
Automation is expected to be deterministic. The outputs can be validated for a given input. If you need some automation more than Excel functions, writing a power automate flow or recording an office script is sufficient & reliable as automation while being cheaper than AI. Can you validate AI as deterministic? This is important for accounting. Maybe you want some thinking around how to optimize a business process, but not for following them.
Brenda as the human-in-the-loop using AI will be much more able than her exec. Will Brenda + AI be better (or more valuable considering the cost of AI) than Brenda alone? That's the real question, I suppose.
AI in many aspects of our life is simply not good right now. For a lot of applications, AI is perpetually just a few years away from being as useful as you describe. If we get there, great.
Brenda probably has annual refresher courses on GAAP, while her exec and the AI don't.
Automation is expected to be deterministic. The outputs can be validated for a given input. If you need some automation more than Excel functions, writing a power automate flow or recording an office script is sufficient & reliable as automation while being cheaper than AI. Can you validate AI as deterministic? This is important for accounting. Maybe you want some thinking around how to optimize a business process, but not for following them.
Brenda as the human-in-the-loop using AI will be much more able than her exec. Will Brenda + AI be better (or more valuable considering the cost of AI) than Brenda alone? That's the real question, I suppose.
AI in many aspects of our life is simply not good right now. For a lot of applications, AI is perpetually just a few years away from being as useful as you describe. If we get there, great.