Annals of Spiru Haret University Economic Series (Apr 2025)
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Financial Management
Abstract
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents one of the most important technological shifts under way in modern financial systems. Its ability to mimic human cognitive processes, analyze large datasets, and perform complex procedures has drastically changed age-old financial management methods. The following study analyzes the different effects of AI on financial operations, ranging from financial transaction automation to facilitating strategic decision-making. The study probes AI's role in optimizing operational efficiency, risk reduction, as well as personalization of financial services. The paper fully explores challenges raised by these achievements—naturally, machine algorithm biases, ethical concerns, as well as issues of usability—and discusses trends currently in evidence, such as Explainable AI (XAI), automation of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics, as well as blockchain technologies applied to finance. The discussion ends with anticipatory pronouncements about an integrative future of human and AI cooperation that enables ethical, scalable, and data-driven financial systems.
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