CFOs will need to trace the data, assumptions and logic behind AI-generated recommendations before acting on them. AI is making financial modeling cheaper and faster. Today, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence’s ability to solve highly complex math problems, finance teams are now approaching a point where computation is not merely automated, but model-building itself becomes dramatically cheaper. Today, financial modeling capacity is expensive, so organizations ration it. The farther AI pushes into calculation and modeling, the more finance’s comparative advantage could migrate toward institutional knowledge.