Generative AI can enable banks to increase digitization at a faster pace through code assistants.
Issue / Opportunity
Many FSI enterprises are pursuing cloud and data transformations, which are essential steps in preparing the organization for using AI tools (of many kinds). In some cases, legacy hardware is retired as data is curated and shifted to the cloud, freeing up humans for more valuable work while bringing down the costs associated with on-premise infrastructure. Yet, these kinds of transformations are significant undertakings that can bring long lead times and high costs. There is also a risk of failure and error.
How Gen AI can help
Supercharge your human capital
Generative AI can be used as a component of cloud and data transformations to empower developers working across the enterprise on applications, data engineering, machine learning, and frontend development.
A helping hand in code development
As organizations explore new digital and cloud capabilities, development teams can accelerate and simplify their work by using Generative AI as a force multiplier when writing, debugging, and documenting code, as well as translating ideas to code.
A shorter path to software
Part of success in transformation hinges on how quickly new enabling software can be deployed. There are opportunities to use Generative AI in software development to shorten the lifecycle and more quickly reach a stable and deployable version, such as by helping rapidly write APIs, ETL, data pipelines, or even frontend code.
Managing risk and promoting trust
Reliability
Partial automation of programming-related tasks requires the system to be reliably availability and accurate. If availability cannot be guaranteed to an acceptable extent, weigh the benefits of automation against the risk of erroneous or buggy code.
Responsibility
The training data for foundation models may create legal risks related to intellectual property or copyright infringement. If the training data contains copyrighted material, the organization deploying the model needs to evaluate whether the presence of intellectual property in the training set could lead to legal challenges against the enterprise.
Security and privacy
By using a Generative AI system, proprietary code bases may be exposed to third parties, raising questions around the security of the data and controlled access to it. An inadvertent breach of confidential intellectual property could have significant enterprise impacts.
Accountability
While the use of Generative AI can accelerate the work of developers, without a human in the loop (e.g., validating and debugging code), critical failures may occur. Shoring up accountability may include documenting and communicating standards and expectations for employees using Generative AI.