Artificial Intelligence: How to Work with Very Smart Machines

Will a computer replace you at work sooner or later? This has increasingly become a concern of knowledge workers who in the past thought they would forever escape the fate of factory and low-level office workers who fell victims to automation. How should knowledge workers cope with the rise of smart machines? "The upside potential of the advancing technology is the promise of augmentation--in which humans and computers combine their strengths to achieve more favorable outcomes than either could do alone," they write. The author of Competing on Analytics (and 16 other books), Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the cofounder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business, and a senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics.