Using Artificial Intelligence to Humanize Management and Set Information Free

We are on the cusp of a major breakthrough in how organizations collect, analyze, and act on knowledge. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. Editor's Note: This is the second in a special series of commissioned essays MIT Sloan Management Review will publishing in Frontiers over the Spring and Summer of 2016. Each essay gives the author's response to this question: "Within the next five years, how will technology change the practice of management in a way we have not yet witnessed?" Artificial Intelligence is about to transform management from an art into a combination of art and science.