Best of CASE District VII Award
 

Institution: Stanford University

Title of entry: How to Survive the A.I. Revolution

About this entry: The recent flood of media coverage and hand-wringing about ChatGPT was just the latest data point for those who worry that advanced technology will soon make people obsolete. Yet what if advances in artificial intelligence usher in an era of cooperation—not competition—between humans and machines?

This is the provocative, promising idea explored in “How to Survive the A.I. Revolution” in the Fall 2022 issue of Stanford Business magazine. Enduring fantasies and fears about superintelligent robots and algorithms may be distracting us from AI’s true potential, according to several experts and researchers affiliated with the Stanford Graduate School of Business. They argue that the most exciting use for AI is not automation but “augmentation”—enabling people to keep their jobs and be more productive and creative than ever.

In her article, Hope Reese looks at research and real-world examples that suggest a future where people remain indispensable. Getting there, she concludes, will require not only programmers but business leaders to tap into a superpower that can’t be programmed into a robot: imagination.