Using Artificial Intelligence to Humanize Management and Set Information Free - Reid Hoffman

This essay originally appeared on MIT Sloan Management Review as part of their Frontiers Essay Series. Each essay is a 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. Not because we'll be taking commands from science fiction's robot overlords, but because specialized AI will allow us to apply data science to our human interactions at work in a way that earlier theorists like Peter Drucker could only imagine. We've already seen the power of specialized AI in the form of IBM's Watson, which trounced the best human players at Jeopardy!, and Google DeepMind's AlphaGo, which recently defeated one of the world's top Go players, Lee Sedol, four games to one.