Tom Davenport on mitigating AI's impact on jobs and business




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Summary: <p>This week, I sit down with <a href="https://twitter.com/tdav">Tom Davenport</a>. Davenport is a professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business, and a senior advisor for Deloitte Analytics. He also pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics.” We talk about how his ideas have evolved since writing the seminal work on that topic, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Competing-Analytics-New-Science-Winning/dp/1422103323">Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning</a></em>; his new book <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Only-Humans-Need-Apply-Machines/dp/0062438611">Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines</a></em>, which looks at how AI is impacting businesses; and we talk more broadly about how AI is impacting society and what we need to do to keep ourselves on a utopian path.</p>