INSURERS EMBRACE AI FOR RISK MODELING, BUT FACE ACCURACY RISKS
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Insurance companies are deploying generative AI and diffusion models to generate thousands of simulated weather events for catastrophe modeling where historical data is sparse. Researchers caution that AI hallucinations could undermine the accuracy of risk assessments.
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