(Finance) – “We must not fear the impact of theartificial intelligence in our profession. Tools like Chat GPT they can never replace the skill and trust relationship between accountant and client. Rather, we must commit ourselves to paving the way for these tools to be truly useful to companies and accountants by guiding this delicate transformation process”. He stated it Dominic Posca, national president of Unico, during the national congress of the Italian Union of Accountants “Artificial intelligence and ESG sustainability – New professional challenges”.
“AI remains a tool in the hands of the professional and thehuman intuition it can never be replaced – continued Posca – since it is our profession that continues to evolve by acquiring more soft skills which will allow us to improve our work. Another fundamental aspect is the need for regulation of this process. The intervention of the Guarantor who blocked Chat Gpt was appropriate to verify the processing of personal data by preventing the configuration of different violations. But it is inevitable that this path will continue. We therefore need a uniform regulation in all the states”.
Unico has chosen Catania precisely because of its vocation for innovationEtna Valleywith the important software research activities of STMicroelectronics and the production of photovoltaic panels with Enel Green power. But the Region also plays its part, as the vice president of the institution underlined, Luca Sammartino, speaking at the congress: “We must avail ourselves, thanks to the funds of the Pnrr but also to those of the community programming, of a new digital infrastructure to allow our professionals but also our users to have an increasingly flexible network that connects us to the country and to Europe”. A project even compared by Sammartino to that of the ‘Bridge over the Strait’.
And on artificial intelligence, Unico’s accountants have achieved a first important result, as underlined by the national councilor Antonio Grape: “We wanted – he said – to give concrete proof of the fact that certain forms of AI are already applicable, by creating the web portal of our congress with voice recognition”.
According to the President of the Accountants’ and Accountants’ Pension Fund, Luigi Pagliuca, “Artificial intelligence will have a major impact on the lives of all citizens. For professionals, in particular, there is the burden of having to solve the problems of businesses and families, therefore, we have a duty to deal with this reality and put it at the service of our business: we need to ‘ride’ this tsunami before that there overwhelm”.
Michele De Tavonattinational vice president of the Council of Accountants, underlined how the body is “focusing on ‘tax delegation’, trying to give the maximum contribution of us experts in the IRS”.
Alberto Gusmeroli, chairman of the Productive Activities Commission in Montecitorio and designated as rapporteur of the Delegation for Tax Reform, he highlighted the importance of the support of accountants and of “all those who have contact with real life: politicians who distance themselves from it, hardly do good laws”.