How to Thrive -- and Survive -- in a World of AI Disruption

The challenge we face today is not a "world without work" but a world with rapidly changing work. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. The pace of progress in AI and machine learning is accelerating rapidly. In the past month alone, these are just a few of the news items I've seen: Deep learning and neural networks have dramatically improved in effectiveness and impact, leading to human-level performance in many aspects of vision, conversational speech, and problem-solving. As a result, industries are in the midst of a major transformation and more is on the way.