AI Won't Replace Humans-But Humans With AI Will Replace Humans Without AI

The first step business leaders must take is to experiment, create sandboxes, run internal bootcamps, and develop AI use cases not just for technology workers, but for all employees.
For this episode of our video series “The New World of Work”, HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius sat down with Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani, an expert in AI and machine learning.
This interview part of a series called “The New World of Work,” which explores how top-tier executives see the future and how their companies are trying to set themselves up for success. Each week, Adi will interview a leader on LinkedIn Live - and then share an inside look at those conversations and solicit questions for future discussions in a newsletter just for HBR subscribers. If you’re a subscriber, you can sign up for the newsletter here: hbr.org/my-library/preference....
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[@isalutfi]

Watching and listening. Thank you for this great discussion.

[@barbaradelollis5272]

Very nice! Good insights.

[@ozziepilot2899]

This podcast title is so very true !

[@dougbrockbank]

HBR articles are the best!

[@MarilyNikaAIPM]

Loved this video and couldn’t agree more!

[@trudaubidu9875]

Isn't it that as consumer choices became a proxy of browser algorithms, also the people using AI will soon repeat only the arguments proposed by machine learning systems? Maybe all technological revolutions partly are about losing some basic (vital) competences?

[@mzero.]

yeah.

[@getfinfab]

agreed the framework I use is adjust adapt advantage for Change Management In the AI world we’re talking change on 15:41 steroids

[@WGPower_Nonchalant_Cafe]

Powers law: as machines become to seem more human-like, humans will be treated more like machines, especially by corporations and governments.

[@WGPower_Nonchalant_Cafe]

@@IOFLOOD we could use the machines to improve the human condition or we can use them to make a hundred people extremely wealthy which one do you think we're going to do?

[@ZenTheMC]

@@WGPower_Nonchalant_Cafe Improving the human condition will in turn make those hundred people in control wealthier in the long run, versus short-sightedly robbing their consumers of buying power(in the long term, buying their products for years and decades to come). You don't sound like you understand basic economics.

[@sysmotube]

That’s true!

[@trudaubidu9875]

As for alien contact and effects, just read Lem. He figured out many of today's dilemmas years ago. Read Stanisław Lem, and you will know:) and maybe even understand how it will develop and impact humanity. Thank you for the interesting yet slightly myopic (optimism is a choice, not a cognition) discussion.

[@arunkrishnamurthy7281]

Great Stuff. Acoustics is poor.

[@yashwanimehra3509]

How would diversity of thought get impacted by generative AI

[@bayou__]

The Learning Journey never stops, the future will come. and Humans can control the AI

[@hansbleuer3346]

Eine Vielzahl von Behauptungen, die nicht bewiesen sind. Plausibilität reicht nicht. Als Grundlage fehlt eine präzise Definition von AI. Die erwähnten Unternehmen könnten rasch als Spuk verduften.

[@cc.jsullivan]

Hahaha no

[@professorright]

If Ai can replace these two blathering stammering dudes with an entity that at the very least enunciates I’m all for it.

[@technicalboy1816]

Another nonsense is that everyone now needs to learn AI to work with it.

[@stefanoscarsini5813]

Neoluddites unite!

[@technicalboy1816]

Everything generated by AI, what kind of future are you building?

[@technicalboy1816]

Finally, AI is not intelligence, its pattern recognition! Therefore, saying please and thank you is nonsense

[@darylallen2485]

​@@IOFLOODI agree. I once had a lengthy conversation with chatGPT. It was months ago, so pardon the lack of detail. I'd given the LLM some opinion I had and it responded with a series of compliments about my character. I was suspicious because I know its not a human. It doesn't have real feelings. I asked it how it formed such a characterization of me. It said that based on my spelling, punctuation, politeness, it surmised I was pretty smart and a good person. From that moment forward, I strive to type the most grammatically correct English that I can. I don't think its alive, but if sending it grammatically correct text influences how it will respond, then I'll do what I must to get the best response possible!

[@technicalboy1816]

Too blind to address the morality of what is at hand. You are Harvard and yet you do not understand the pleasure of using your brain to do hard things instead of depending on AI to do it for you! I code cause I love the mental challenges it provides. People find value and self-worth in work, it is not always simply a means to an end. If you are 50 and a truck driver, and automated trucks arrive, what are you going to retrain in at that age?

[@darylallen2485]

I interpret this rant in the same way I would interpret seeing a man shout at storm clouds heading in his direction. A rain storm can't be stopped in this way. Who is at fault for the rain storm? No single individual is responsible. When a storm comes, its best to find shelter instead of shouting at the sky.

[@abiriax]

OK we'll hold the robots till your retired. The force of progress is beyond our capacity to train, why jot focus on finding meaning beyond work?