The Carrier Owns the Decision Architecture

The Carrier Owns the Decision Architecture

What Automated Underwriting Can Teach Us About AI Accountability Key Takeaways Insurance did not begin delegating decisions to machines with generative AI. Automated underwriting systems have been doing versions of it for decades, and they generally worked by making...
The Carrier Owns the Decision Architecture

Noise Diversifies. Bias Accumulates.

Judgment, Determinism, and the Shape of Error in Insurance Key Takeaways Large language models can produce different outputs from identical prompts even when configured to minimize randomness, but some of that variation comes from how the system processes requests...
The Coming AI Questions for Reinsurers

The Coming AI Questions for Reinsurers

The Economics of AI in Insurance, Part 3 By James W. Moore Key Takeaways Better underwriting does not create more risk-bearing capital. Carriers buy reinsurance for reasons that go well beyond confidence in their own risk selection, including capital, liquidity,...
What Happens When Underwriting Gets Cheap?

What Happens When Underwriting Gets Cheap?

Artificial Intelligence May Change Competition More Than Demand By James W. Moore   Key Takeaways AI’s most important effect on insurance may not be labor displacement but capacity displacement: the creation of underwriting capacity faster than insurable...
What Happens When Underwriting Gets Cheap?

Insurance Isn’t Coal

Insurance Answers a Different Economic Question By James W. MooreFounder | Editor-in-Chief, InsuranceIndustry.ai If you’ve spent any time reading about artificial intelligence over the past year, you’ve probably run across Jevons Paradox. The idea...
AI is Insurable

AI is Insurable

But Not the Way You Think. By James W. Moore In February 2026, according to AIUC’s announcement, ElevenLabs became the first company to go live with a dedicated AI liability policy, backed by Lloyd’s market capacity with limits up to $50 million. It...