Earlier this month, Sarthak Pattanaik, 49, a senior engineer at BNY was sitting in his office in the bank’s global headquarters when he typed my name into a search field, asking the bank’s proprietary artificial intelligence what kinds of questions I might ask during our upcoming interview? He also asked about my writing style and whether my observations were more subjective, or objective—which I admit, made me feel a bit uneasy.
“Just getting a sense of this also helps us to prepare,” says Pattanaik, the head engineer in charge of BNY’s artificial intelligence division. “And this is exactly what we do to our salespeople and relationship people.” Fortunately, the AI’s assessments of a wide array of business opportunities—and of me—remain locked within a database on-premises alongside the bank’s $2 trillion in assets under management.
