55. Report: “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: A Critical Inflection Point for the Accounting Profession” | with Kacee Johnson

Today’s topic is A.I. Artificial intelligence. You might have heard about it? It’s that thing everyone’s been talking about for the last five years or so. Yeah, the hype is out of this world.   But here’s the thing, and there’s really no getting around it: this isn’t something entirely new or groundbreaking. The technology itself is new, but we’ve been through this before. Excel was supposed to kill our profession, remember? Then came the Internet, and Turbotax, and the cloud. And you know what? We’re still here, adding greater value for our clients than ever.   But technology today is also evolving faster than ever, meaning it’s harder to keep up than ever. Automated solutions are eating away at more of our foundational tasks than ever. However, for the time being anyway, they’re still just tools — tools that augment what we do and allow us to do it with greater efficiency, speed, effectiveness, all while adding more value for our clients than ever.   It’s in that light that CPA.com, the technology arm of the American Institute of CPAs, released a new whitepaper titled “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: A Critical Inflection Point for the Accounting Profession.” And it’s in that light that we sit down with our guest, Kacee Johnson, a strategic advisor with CPA.com.   To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit blionline.org/blog.   Resources: Read: “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: A Critical Inflection Point for the Accounting Profession” Learn more at MACPA.org/future-learning LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kacee-johnson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaceebop Future-Proof is produced by Podcast Masters