Why AI Will Be Slowest to Take Finance Jobs: Someone Must Take the Blame
LazyPotatoHead97 · reddit · 2026-10-22
A Redditor argues finance will be the last white-collar industry disrupted by AI — not because of technical limits, but accountability: when money is lost, companies still need a human scapegoat. Combined with big banks' ancient legacy systems, the poster concludes finance workers are safe for years, framing job security through the lens of blame allocation rather than capability.
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