{"id":71498,"date":"2026-09-09T06:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/the-true-cost-of-ai-and-is-it-worth-it-part-two\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:17:23","slug":"the-true-cost-of-ai-and-is-it-worth-it-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/the-true-cost-of-ai-and-is-it-worth-it-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The true cost of AI \u2026 and is it worth it? (Part Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. The mistake is believing that the business case for AI is simply replacing people. If a bank employs 100 people costing \u00a310 million and replaces them with AI costing \u00a312 million, then viewed through the traditional cost-reduction spreadsheet AI has failed. Yet that calculation ignores what happens if those AI systems perform ten times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2026\/09\/the-true-cost-of-ai-and-is-it-worth-it-part-two\/\">The true cost of AI \u2026 and is it worth it? (Part Two)<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/\">Chris Skinner&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. The mistake is believing that the business case for AI is simply replacing people. If a bank employs 100 people costing \u00a310 million and replaces them with AI costing \u00a312 million, then viewed through the traditional cost-reduction spreadsheet AI has failed. Yet that calculation ignores what happens if those AI systems perform ten times&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}