AI Is Rewriting Risk — Are You Ready?

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how investment and risk teams operate — and the pace of change is accelerating. In this episode of MSCI Perspectives, Hitendra Varsani, Head of Equity Index Investment R&D, and Andrew DeMond, Head of Analytics Research Platform and Governance, explore how AI has evolved. In a few short years it’s gone from a simple question-and-answer tool into core operational infrastructure — compressing workflows from weeks to minutes, enabling real-time portfolio risk analysis and unlocking insights from previously siloed datasets. They also examine the risks, including model governance, explainability and herd behavior. The conclusion? In an AI-first world, human judgment matters more than ever.