5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2021 Edition (5 Books)

Collaborative Intelligence

Humans and AI Are Joining Forces.by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS BECOMING good at many “human” jobs—diagnosing disease, translating languages, providing customer service—and it’s improving fast. This is raising reasonable fears that AI will ultimately replace human workers throughout the economy. But that’s not the inevitable, or even most likely, outcome. Never before have digital tools been so responsive to us, nor we to our tools. While AI will radically alter how work gets done and who does it, the technology’s larger impact will be in complementing and augmenting human capabilities, not replacing them.

Certainly, many companies have used AI to automate processes, but those that ...