What happens if you don’t learn AI in 2025? This blog looks at how AI is transforming finance and the simple way to find out if you’re ready for the AI era. Let’s dive in!
AI’s Impact on Financial Services: A 2025 Perspective
The integration of AI into financial services has led to significant shifts in the workforce:
- McKinsey estimates up to 800 million jobs could be displaced by automation in the next few years.
- The World Economic Forum says AI could replace 85 million jobs globally by the end of 2025 – but also create 97 million new ones for those with the right skills.
- Junior roles in investment banks are being automated in real-time, pushing teams to reskill or risk redundancy.
- And across the board, firms are urgently hiring for AI fluency, tech literacy, and strategic thinking.
The message is clear: To remain relevant in the financial sector, developing AI competencies is essential.
But how do you know if you’re AI-ready?
It’s hard to assess yourself. Most of us either overestimate our skills… or completely overlook what we don’t know.
That’s why we created AIQ – the AI Skills Assessment. This is a comprehensive tool designed to evaluate your preparedness across five key pillars:
- AI Fundamental: How strong is your understanding of AI concepts, models and data mechanics? This is the base layer of AI literacy.
- AI Implementation: From deploying tools to prompt engineering, this measures how well you can apply AI in your work.
- AI Governance: Do you understand ethical risks, bias, security and compliance in AI systems? This pillar covers responsible AI usage.
- Strategic Thinking: AI isn’t just technical – it’s strategic. Can you use AI insights to make better business decisions and guide your team?
- Human-AI Collaboration: This focuses on how well you work with AI: adapting to emerging trends, using AI tools, and thinking beyond automation.
This is your moment to act
Whether you’re in product, operations, risk or marketing – your ability to work with AI could define your next promotion, project or pivot.
