Junior Bankers Are Teaching Their Elders How to Use AI
Knowing your way around the transformative technology is the new finance flex.
This is part of a series on the new realities of finance. Read more on being Black on Wall Street, bank access for weed companies and finance in wartime.
While banks tout efficiency gains they’ve both achieved and project from AI, fears persist that the technology could hollow out entry-level roles. What is clear is that employers are onboarding classes of financial analysts for whom using AI models is second nature. It’s possible their fluency, and their openness to experimenting with evolving tools, may be giving younger workers a leg up on their elders. We talked to junior bankers about what their early career looks like as AI creeps in.
The Engineer
Hailey Mullen, 24
Hailey Mullen has always used technology to make sense of the world. At Dartmouth College, she studied engineering and got a master’s degree in operations research and analytics, working with professors who embraced AI as a tool of the future, with models performing quantum-physics calculations and multivariable calculus. “I got to approach AI with a lot of curiosity and creativity in a very unstructured, unregulated environment,” she says.