Bloomberg Surveillance · Monday, August 10, 2026
Heather Rice from KPMG believes AI is not eliminating jobs but rather making employees more valuable by enabling faster data analysis and quicker business decisions. She described AI as a tool that helps overcome 'the paralysis of data,' allowing employees to focus on higher-value tasks. Rice also noted that companies are using AI to streamline operations and reduce backend costs, but it's not a quick plug-and-play solution and requires good data.
“I wouldn't frame it like that. How I would say, companies are using AI to move faster in business, and we have massive amounts of data, but what do we do with that?”
“And so I think you have employees that are now being able to be more valuable and spending more time analyzing the data to make business decisions quicker.”
“I don't think it is a quick plug and play solution, right. If anything, I think it's exposed that your data has to be good.”