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Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Prediction versus Judgment / Ajay K. Agrawal, Joshua S. Gans, Avi Goldfarb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agrawal, Ajay K.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24626.
- NBER working paper series no. w24626
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- Based on recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), we examine what type of human labor will be a substitute versus a complement to emerging technologies. We argue that these recent developments reduce the costs of providing a particular set of tasks - prediction tasks. Prediction about uncertain states of the world is an input into decision-making. We show that prediction allows riskier decisions to be taken and this is its impact on observed productivity although it could also increase the variance of outcomes as well. We consider the role of human judgment in decision-making as prediction technology improves. Judgment is exercised when the objective function for a particular set of decisions cannot be described (i.e., coded). However, we demonstrate that better prediction impacts the returns to different types of judgment in opposite ways. Hence, not all human judgment will be a complement to AI. Finally, we show that humans will delegate some decisions to machines even when the decision would be superior with human input.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2018.
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