“The way that I like to think about them in regards to internal audits is five independent layers that if all of them exist, it's a system designed well enough to be used in audit settings”

The Audit Podcast · Ep 300: AI Agents, Audit Testing, and the Future of Internal Audit w/ Alexey Zanin

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What was described

defined a five-layer framework for AI agents in internal audit (proof testing plan, source evidence with timestamps, extraction layer, assessment layer, human review)

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