Why Edinburgh Firms Are Asking These Questions Now
Edinburgh manages more assets per capita than almost any other city in Europe. Insurers, asset managers, and financial planners here are already using AI to flag risks, model portfolios, and draft client communications. The question is not whether to use these tools. The question is who stays responsible when the tool gets it wrong.
The FCA and the Scottish financial regulators are watching closely. Conduct rules do not bend because an algorithm recommended the action. When a firm cannot explain why it made a decision, that is a governance problem, not just a technology one.
Edinburgh also has a concentration of long-tenured professionals who built careers on expert judgement. AI promises to accelerate that judgement. What it can also do is quietly replace it, in ways that are hard to notice until something goes wrong.
What Steve Covers For Edinburgh Audiences
Steve's talk addresses how professionals in high-stakes industries can use AI tools without outsourcing the thinking that makes their work defensible. He is direct about what AI does well, what it does poorly, and where the boundary between useful assistance and abdicated responsibility tends to sit.
For financial services audiences, he focusses on decision-making under uncertainty, the behavioral pull toward AI-generated confidence, and how to build teams that interrogate outputs rather than just relay them. The content is practical and grounded in how these organizations actually operate.
Steve is available for keynote sessions, leadership offsites, and conference programs at the Edinburgh International Conference center and other Edinburgh venues.
Topics for Edinburgh audiences
Steve speaks on cognitive sovereignty, the judgment economy, AI and creativity, and related topics. Full details on the Speaking page.
Book Steve for your Edinburgh event
If you are planning a corporate conference, leadership event, or offsite in Edinburgh and want to discuss whether Steve's work is a good fit, the Work with Me page has the details.