CFO Weekly

General-Purpose AI Agents Are Not Built for High-Stakes Finance

July 28, 2026·20 min
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In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jeremy Ung, Chief Technology Officer at BlackLine, joins Megan Weis to explore why general-purpose AI agents are not automatically safe for high-stakes financial operations. Drawing on more than two decades of engineering and product leadership at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Apptio, Jeremy explains why deploying AI agents in finance requires the same rigor as onboarding a new employee, and how BlackLine is building toward a future where agents, not just people, are the primary users of finance software.

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