How Moody's can be an AI-enabler, but remain resilient to AI disruption itself. CEO Robert Fauber lays out the data

One positive reality check to emerge unscathed from the ongoing hype cycle is the criticality of having a solid data foundation underpinning AI. Garbage in, garbage out has always been an enterprise tech maxim and it’s never been more true than today.

So that should leave companies specializing in data in a prime position to benefit from the AI revolution? That’s certainly the view of Robert Fauber, CEO of Moody’s, the US financial services and credit rating giant, who states:

I think we all understand that data and trusted data is going to be the fuel for AI, especially for the big regulated institutions that are big customers of ours, and so we feel very good about having built out this massive data estate.

What Moody’s has at its corporate fingertips is not only massive, it’s proprietary and that’s going to be a major ...