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Confessions of an AI Optimist

An Interview with MIT’s Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee

Boston Consulting Group, 2018

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Predictions about the future of work can be alarming. Yet not everybody buys into the doomsday scenarios that innovator Elon Musk and others have popularized. MIT scientist and author Andrew McAfee, who studies the impact of new technologies, shares a rosier view in his latest book Machine, Platform, Crowd – co-written with technologist Erik Brynjolfsson. The book informs this pithy, expert interview with Boston Consulting Group managing director Massimo Russo. getAbstract suggests this talk to everybody interested in the coming “automated economy.”

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As companies train algorithms, they face the risk that bad data will lead to inferior artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The “garbage in, garbage out risk” isn’t new or specific to AI, but the autonomy of AI amplifies the threat.
AI is far from mastering the ability to connect with humans emotionally and socially and thus, in the foreseeable future, won’t replace people in health care and other professions requiring social skills.
The executive mind-set – not the financial investment or necessary training – is the biggest hurdle to achieving the potential of emerging technology. Leaders must reimagine their companies and business models in light of new tech.

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Andrew McAfee is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the co-author of Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future.

Confessions of an AI Optimist

An Interview with MIT’s Andrew McAfee

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