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Shirin Hamid

Chief Information Officer and Director of the Information Technology Department at the International Monetary Fund; digital-governance and emerging-technology leader.

The intelligent central bank is not the bank with the most AI, It is the bank whose AI can be trusted, and can ensure that any AI that touches the financial system is explainable, governed, secure, ethical, and human-supervised. [...] For every AI-influenced decision, we need a named human who is answerable. [...] We should aim to augment judgment first, and grant autonomy only where it has been earned.

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Shirin Hamid, IMF Chief Information Officer, speaking at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka's 76th Anniversary Oration in Colombo on October 23, 2026. EconomyNext reports and directly quotes her call for explainable, governed, secure, ethical, human-supervised AI in the financial system, a named accountable human for every AI-influenced decision, and autonomy only where earned.

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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains

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AI Verified Full coverage: 'any AI that touches the financial system' supplies the high-stakes financial domain; 'grant autonomy' supplies agentic action; 'human-supervised' plus a 'named human who is answerable' supplies required human-in-the-loop oversight. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The quote supports the statement: it requires human-supervised AI in the financial system, a named accountable human for every AI-influenced decision, and autonomy only where earned; recorded answer 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified EconomyNext's Oct. 23, 2026 report reproduces all three passages verbatim and attributes them to IMF CIO Shirin Hamid at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka's anniversary oration; the stored day, author, and source agree. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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