Preparing for a Digital Audit Workforce: Lessons Learned from Applying Agentic AI at the Swiss Federal Audit Office
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public-sector has reached a point at which Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) can no longer treat it as a distant or experimental matter. Emerging applications of agentic AI are beginning to reshape the work of professional knowledge services, including auditing. The pace of this development, driven both by private-sector commercial adoption and by the rapid evolution of open technical standards, makes technology relevant for public auditing today rather than at some point in the future.