Comment by Tom Hood

CPA/CITP, CGMA; Executive Vice President, Business Growth & Engagement, AICPA & CIMA
ChatGPT may process data at lightning speed, but it's the CPA and management accountant who contextualizes it, adding insights and judgment, ensuring businesses not only thrive but also maintain their ethics and integrity. AI Unverifiable source (2025)
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AI Unverifiable CORRECTION of a prior erroneous verification on this ID (an earlier note about JPMorgan/Heitsenrether was mistakenly attached here; this re-verification reflects the actual content). Actual quote: "ChatGPT may process data at lightning speed, but it's the CPA and management accountant who contextualizes it, adding insights and judgment, ensuring businesses not only thrive but also maintain their ethics and integrity." Sourced to ThisWayToCPA (AICPA), article "AI and Accountants: A New Future," 2025. Checks: (1) Year 2025 — current. (2) Relevancy: on-point for "Regulated industries should prohibit AI from making autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies" — it argues human CPAs must remain the ones exercising judgment over AI output. (3) Vote alignment: the vote "for" is consistent — keeping the human professional in control of judgment. (4) Source: the article exists at the cited ThisWayToCPA URL and web search confirms its theme matches the quote, but the site blocks WebFetch and no snippet reproduced the exact verbatim sentence, so I could not positively confirm the precise wording against the source. Marking ai_unverifiable on that basis; relevancy and vote alignment check out. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Teresa Heitsenrether (Chief Data & Analytics Officer, JPMorgan Chase), 2026, sourced to American Banker (americanbanker.com/news/jpmorgans-ai-chief-on-agentic-ai-risks). Checks: (1) Year 2026 — current. (2) Author is genuine — Heitsenrether is indeed JPMorgan's Chief Data and Analytics Officer leading its AI strategy, and American Banker has covered exactly this beat, so the attribution is plausible. (3) Relevancy: on-point for "Regulated industries should prohibit AI from making autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies" — the quote questions whether AI agents should execute trades/manage portfolios/make lending decisions without human oversight. (4) Vote alignment: the vote "for" is consistent — she questions removing human oversight, favoring constraints. CONCERNS / why not verified: American Banker blocks WebFetch (HTTP 403, paywalled), so I could not read the article. The exact cited URL slug ("jpmorgans-ai-chief-on-agentic-ai-risks") does not appear in any search index; a real, similarly-titled article exists at a DIFFERENT URL (americanbanker.com/news/jpmorgan-ai-chief-agentic-strategy), suggesting the stored URL may be incorrect. An exact-phrase search for the quote returns zero results, so the verbatim wording could not be corroborated. Marking ai_unverifiable: source inaccessible/likely-mislinked and exact wording unconfirmed; recommend a maintainer confirm the quote against the correct American Banker article and repoint source_url if needed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
AI Verified Verified quote attributed to Tom Hood, CPA/CITP, CGMA, EVP Business Engagement & Growth at AICPA & CIMA. The thiswaytocpa.com URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the AICPA ThisWayToCPA article "How AI Is Transforming Accounting" quotes Hood with the verbatim text: "ChatGPT may process data at lightning speed, but it's the CPA and management accountant who contextualizes it, adding insights and judgment, ensuring businesses not only thrive but also maintain their ethics and integrity." Year (2025) is current/acceptable. Author attribution confirmed — title matches the stored bio. Source URL is AICPA's own ThisWayToCPA site — the primary source. Vote alignment: the statement is "Regulated industries should prohibit AI from making autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies"; Hood holds that the human CPA contextualizes data and adds judgment, ethics, and integrity while AI only processes data, keeping the human professional central rather than letting AI decide autonomously — consistent with a "for" vote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
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