McKinsey’s CFO: Why finance chiefs shouldn’t hit pause on AI right now

Good morning. For CFOs, using the words “uncertainty” and “unprecedented” has become second nature this year.

“There’s a bit of fatigue from uncertainty right now,” Yuval Atsmon, CFO of McKinsey, told me when we met in Washington, D.C., to discuss how finance chiefs navigated 2025 and the impact of AI. He often hears some executives joke, “Can we just have something that has a precedent?”

Following President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day, Atsmon said significant uncertainty...