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EY Just Deployed AI to 130,000 Auditors. 78% of Executives Can't Explain What's Happening.
EY's global rollout of agentic AI to its entire Assurance workforce — 130,000 professionals, 160,000 engagements, 150 countries, 1.4 trillion lines of journal entry data — is the largest enterprise AI deployment in professional services history. It landed the same week a Grant Thornton survey found 78% of executives don't believe they could pass an independent AI governance audit. Both things are true simultaneously.
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Who Audits the Audit AI?
EY just deployed agentic AI to 130,000 auditors processing 1.4 trillion data points. The audit profession runs entirely on trust. So why are audit AI agents the last to be independently verified?
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