Consumers Want AI Advisors to Start Small

News June 03, 2024 at 03:16 PM
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Americans are much more interested in using artificial intelligence systems to choose credit cards than in using them to buy life insurance or investment products.

KPMG found the gap when it asked 1,100 U.S. consumers ages 18 and older about their comfort with various types of AI-provided financial advice.

Credit cards topped the comfort list: 48% of survey participants would let AI advisors help them choose their cards.

Fewer were interested in hearing what AIs have to say about life insurance and investments.

Only 33% said they wanted AI-provided life insurance advice. Just 32% said they were comfortable about turning to an AI for investment advice or retirement planning advice.

What it means:  Life insurance and investment advisors may be able to outcompete the AIs longer than some other types of financial services sector professionals.

The survey: KPMG included questions about AI advisor trust in a recent online survey that focused on U.S. consumers' hopes and fears about the economy.

The survey team found, for example, that 44% of participants were happy about their own financial situations but only 37% were optimistic about the U.S. economy.

About 40% said AI systems that can generate writing or other forms of communication are already changing their lives.

Regional perspectives: In addition to conducting a national survey, KPMG used the same questionnaire on samples of 400 people in each of five metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York and San Francisco.

Here are the percentages of participants in each of those cities who said they were comfortable with getting life insurance advice and investment advice from AI advisors.

Atlanta

  • Life: 36%
  • Investment: 34%

Boston

  • Life: 32%
  • Investment: 35%

Chicago

  • Life: 32%
  • Investment: 28%

New York

  • Life: 36%
  • Investment: 37%

San Francisco

  • Life: 32%
  • Investment: 30%

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