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Category: Artificial Intelligence
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Ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, we’ve been hearing increasingly dire predictions about AI’s impact on jobs. As AI systems became capable of writing software, analyzing documents, answering questions, and performing other cognitive tasks once thought to require humans, warnings of massive technological unemployment have become increasingly common. These fears have…
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Throughout history, major advances in science have often followed the invention of new instruments that expanded what scientists could observe and explore. The telescope opened the heavens to systematic observation. The microscope revealed an invisible world of cells and microorganisms. Computers enabled scientists to model and analyze systems of previously unimaginable complexity. Artificial intelligence may…
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In a 1963 lecture at Harvard, Clark Kerr coined the term multiversity to describe what the American research university had become in postwar America. At the time, Kerr was President of the University of California Board of Regents. “In Kerr’s account, the modern university was no longer to be understood as a community of scholars…
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For the past few years, one of the biggest questions surrounding AI agents has been whether they could actually perform useful enterprise work. That question has been increasingly answered. They can. The more difficult questions have now shifted from technical capability to organizational deployment. Can enterprises trust agents to act on their behalf? How should…
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“As organizations push to accelerate AI adoption, many leaders are considering a simple idea: Stop treating AI as a tool and start treating it as an employee,” said a recent Harvard Business Review article, “Why You Shouldn’t Treat AI Agents Like Employees.” The HBR article was co-authored by Boston University professor Emma Wiles along with…
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Hundreds of millions of people are now regularly interacting with systems that can write, analyze, advise, code, and increasingly act on their behalf. Never before have so many people had immediate access to such a powerful intellectual tool. But as AI becomes increasingly ubiquitous, a more fundamental question is emerging: What are we asking AI…
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Can AI actually help us become better writers? I’ve been thinking about this question since reading “AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult,” an article recently published in Communications of the ACM (CACM) by Jeremy Osborn. Osborn explained that programming has traditionally been a demanding cognitive activity in which developers rely heavily…
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Will AI eventually replace software developers? Over the past few years, predictions have ranged from “The End of Programming,” which argued that “The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit,” to claims that “ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years.” But something more interesting…
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On August 11, MIT Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu published his latest book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity. For much of the second half of the 20th century, liberal democracy appeared to be remarkably successful. Economic growth raised living standards across broad segments of society, technological advances created new…
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly spreading across the enterprise. Employees are using AI tools to improve their productivity, companies are launching pilots across a growing number of business functions, and executives are investing heavily in AI initiatives. Yet for most organizations, a major gap remains between experimenting with AI and making it a core operational capability.…