Everything Tom Davenport said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Davenport: Basic income experiment recipients mostly spend extra time watching TV
“But in the experiments thus far, it appears that instead of doing, you know, highly meaningful activities, people just watch more TV.”
Tom Davenport: Humans will prefer human-created art and humor over AI
“I think at some point there will probably be just a human preference for human created art and humor and so on, just because it's human.”
Davenport: AI will struggle to read human psychological cues like bluffing
“The whole thing about looking in your opponent's eyes and figuring out whether they're bluffing or not. I think that's going to be tough for machine to do for a while.”
Davenport: Society should offer guaranteed work rather than basic income
“Because of this belief in the importance of work for, you know, meaning and life satisfaction, we'd argue for guaranteed work, which would be compensated rather than guaranteed income alone.”
Davenport: Pure corporate automation triggers a race to the bottom in margins
“Pursuing automation tends to be kind of a race to the bottom in many ways. It sort of lowers everybody's cost, but it also lowers everybody's margins, and everybody ends up doing kind of similar, not so innovative things”
Davenport: Augmentation is the most likely path for AI in work
“I think that augmentation-oriented future we think is by far the most likely one for how AI travels through the occupational world.”
Davenport: Almost every tech vendor will add cognitive AI capabilities
“You know, big companies like IBM are hiring thousands of people to do this, and I think there's every reason to expect that as these technologies take hold, almost every vendor will have some level of cognitive capabilities, and a lot of people will need to be…”
Davenport: Automation will bring outsourced corporate work back in-house
“Well, we believe that organizations will continue to Exist and in fact may bring more of their work back in house than they have had over the past couple of decades that automation may take back a fair amount of the work that was distributed through outsourcin…”
Davenport: AI interest and corporate adoption hit an all-time high
“As you suggest, we've gone through various cycles in this space, and this is probably the most spring-like spring we've ever had in the sense of interest in the technology, the number of firms that are adopting it.”
Tom Davenport
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