Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are accelerating us into the fourth industrial revolution. In the next few years technological change and innovation will be rapid. The implications of AI on the actuarial profession are real and game changing. This session will help health actuaries understand what to expect from AI, how to begin using AI, and how AI will dramatically enhance the actuarial profession in the near future.

Description: Feature article describing how to use advanced predictive analytics for rate making in the insurance industry.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that defines a predictive model for assessing risk associated with information systems.

Description: This project obtains ensemble simulations of surface atmospheric temperature over North America.

Description: The Modeling Section, Predictive Analytics and Futurism Section, Committee on Life Insurance Research, Product Development Section and Reinsurance Section releases a report that can help to educate actuaries on how best to implement predictive modeling into relevant areas of actuarial practice. This report includes a review of existing literature and current industry practices, as well as a comprehensive set of considerations for predictive modeling in insurance applications.

Description: The aim of this project is to present proposals for Variable Uninsured Life Annuities—or “Value annuities.” The report and the accompanying models illustrate how Value annuities work.

Description: This is an Editorial describing the need for actuaries to upgrade skills or risk minimization from artificial intelligence.

Description: The author reviews a book the debunks some of the hype we read about using quantity at the expense of quality. She also points out some unrealistic outcomes when data scientists lack business knowledge.

Description: Read the February 2020 issue of Predictive Analytics and Futurism published by the Predictive Analytics and Futurism Section. Newsletter provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: In this webcast, the presenter will cover mental health in insurance products. Learn about the public’s increased interest in mental health and the ways insurers can meet this demand, how we can embed such offerings in insurance and how to successfully expand mental health coverage to those in need. The second speaker will cover how cancer and the simplified issue insurance market has evolved in Korea. In this session, the speaker will share the ease of selling / onboarding, thus allowing a greater penetration of products.