AI will kill (some) mortgage jobs. One exec says that's a good thing

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Katherine Campbell, former chief marketing officer at AnnieMac Home Mortgage, is no stranger to jumping into something new.

In the 1990s, Campbell moved to San Francisco in the midst of the dot-com boom. After time with Wells Fargo and a series of startups, she ran marketing departments for insurance products and even gas and oil, eventually becoming a fixture in the mortgage industry with Assurance Financial and later AnnieMac. Today, Campbell is pursuing a new path through the launch of Leopard Jobs.

The new company is founded on the belief that artificial intelligence and technological innovation is changing the work environment. Leopard seeks to help businesses adapt to that reality.

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"I do believe we're in the biggest work revolution that has ever existed, in large part because of the onslaught of AI and the sort of ease of access to that, so that it is not only capable of replacing we're looking at around 300 million jobs here in the next couple of years, but it is really what should happen," she said. "[We should be excited about this because] it takes away the mundane day-to-day tasks."

Campbell doesn't want those in the financial services industry to fear how AI will impact the back-end functions of a company. Instead, she's aiming to find a way for them to benefit from the technological transition that is taking place.

Her newly launched company is providing consulting services for companies struggling to adapt to a remote workforce. Also, there are plans to launch a technology sometime next year aimed at "the new generation of Gen Y and Gen Z and the way they want to talk about work and share work."

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.