Once a month, Motiva shares what we see inside insurance, mortgage, and financial firms, the cybersecurity, IT, and DFS compliance risks that quietly end careers and renewals. Written for the Motiva community by the advisors who do this work every day. No fear-mongering, no pitch — just what's real, from the people in the room.
"We don't really use AI here." Twenty minutes later,
three of his people had ChatGPT open and one had
pasted a client's full application into it. He wasn't lying
— and that's the whole problem.
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