The Creative Risk of Letting AI Do All Your Work

Imagine hiring every all-star on the market, paying top dollar and then finishing sixth in your division. That's not a hypothetical. It’s what happened to Sinan Aral’s beloved Liverpool F.C. last season, and it's also, he argues, an almost perfect metaphor for how most organizations are deploying AI right now.

Aral is a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and one of the leading researchers on human-AI collaboration. His lab has spent the last several years running large-scale, real-world experiments on what actually happens when humans and AI work together; the results should give every leader pause.

"In about 85 percent of the studies we've seen," he told me, "while adding AI to human beings improves human beings alone, most of the time it's better to just let the AI do it alone."

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