Srinivasa: Erie Insurance created an AI office to monitor token usage
Partha Srinivasa · Is Unstructured Data The Key To Successful AI Deployments? · Jun 16, 2026 · at 1:11:21
Partha Srinivasa, CIO of Erie Insurance, explains how the insurer is establishing cost governance and approval processes for AI deployments.
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“What we are setting up in our organization is there is an AI center of excellence and AI business office, similar to how cloud used to have a cloud business office whose primary responsibility to watch how people are picking up compute on a self-service mode. We are watching every single tokens”
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