David Austin Distinguished Professor, MIT; Director @MIT_IDE ; Co-Founder, Manifest Capital & Milemark Capital; Hype Machine Author, @digitalinsiderpod
AI isn’t just assisting anymore, it’s acting.
Sinan Aral (@professorsinan ), @mit_ide Director and Professor of IT and Marketing at @mitsloan and Eric So, MIT IDE Research Group Lead and Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan, break down what happens when AI agents don’t wait for permission—and what that means for all of us.
Key takeaways: • Agents can make decisions + take action independently • Humans risk stepping out of the loop • The real skill now: knowing what to delegate (and what not to)
Who’s in control when AI starts acting on its own?
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#ai #aiagents #chatgpt #chatbot #mitsloan
At BIG.AI@MIT , we spent two days exploring the business, economic and societal impacts of AI with the world's leading thinkers. The results were unanimous: this is the most important technological revolution in human history and steering it requires us to understand it, not (only) from a technical perspective, but more importantly from an economic, sociological, cognitive, and generally socio-technical perspective. Changes from AI will be social and economic. Understanding these aspects of the technology are much harder than understanding it technically.
You might not just work with AI. You might report to it. At BIG.AI@MIT , @ranaelkaliouby shared a vision of organizations becoming hybrids of humans and AI—where management itself could look very different.
In a fireside chat with @mit_ide Director @professorsinan , she raised the real challenge: not the technology, but what comes next.
How do you build trust, accountability, and clarity in teams where AI plays a central role?
Would you work for an AI manager?
👉 Check out the full fireside chat via link in our bio
💻 Visit ide.mit.edu to explore more insights from BIG.AI@MIT
I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with @sorkinsays yesterday about "Grid Power and the AI Boom" on @cnbc 's Squawk Box.
We covered data center build outs, implications for electricity prices and grid power, state and federal regulations (like the recent Maine moratorium), prospects for international data center build outs (for example in GCC countries given the war in Iran), forecasting compute demand, and the future of all things AI!
Hope you enjoy it. As always, comments are greatly appreciated!
