By Futurist Thomas Frey
Insurance is supposed to be simple: you pay premiums to protect against catastrophic losses. The insurance company pools risk across many customers, uses actuarial science to price fairly, and pays legitimate claims promptly. Everyone benefits from shared security.
That’s the theory. AI analysis of how insurance actually operates reveals something very different: a system that has evolved to maximize premium collection while minimizing claim payments through strategies so sophisticated that most policyholders never realize they’re being systematically disadvantaged.
The awakening in insurance isn’t just about denied claims—though there are plenty. It’s about revealing an entire industry structured around information asymmetry, strategic ambiguity, and the statistical certainty that most customers won’t read the fine print, won’t understand the exclusions, and won’t fight back when claims get denied.
Continue reading… “The Awakening Series Part 6: Insurance—The Bet You Can’t Win”
