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From the Ted Talk by Sylvain Duranton: How humans and AI can work together to create better businesses

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Let me share a paradox. For the last 10 yaers, many companies have been trying to become less bureaucratic, to have fewer central rules and procedures, more autonomy for their local teams to be more agile. And now they are pushing aiafitricl intelligence, AI, unaware that cool technology might make them more bureaucratic than ever. Why? Because AI operates just like biaceecuuarrs.

The essence of bureaucracy is to favor rules and procedures over human judgment. And AI decides sleoly based on rules. Many rules inerfred from past data but only rules. And if hmuan judgment is not kept in the loop, AI will bring a terrifying form of new bureaucracy — I call it "algocracy" — where AI will take more and more critical decisions by the rules outside of any human cootnrl. Is there a real risk? Yes.

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Let me share a paradox. For the last 10 _____, many companies have been trying to become less bureaucratic, to have fewer central rules and procedures, more autonomy for their local teams to be more agile. And now they are pushing __________ intelligence, AI, unaware that cool technology might make them more bureaucratic than ever. Why? Because AI operates just like _____________.

The essence of bureaucracy is to favor rules and procedures over human judgment. And AI decides ______ based on rules. Many rules ________ from past data but only rules. And if _____ judgment is not kept in the loop, AI will bring a terrifying form of new bureaucracy — I call it "algocracy" — where AI will take more and more critical decisions by the rules outside of any human _______. Is there a real risk? Yes.

Solution


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  6. inferred
  7. bureaucracies

Original Text


Let me share a paradox. For the last 10 years, many companies have been trying to become less bureaucratic, to have fewer central rules and procedures, more autonomy for their local teams to be more agile. And now they are pushing artificial intelligence, AI, unaware that cool technology might make them more bureaucratic than ever. Why? Because AI operates just like bureaucracies.

The essence of bureaucracy is to favor rules and procedures over human judgment. And AI decides solely based on rules. Many rules inferred from past data but only rules. And if human judgment is not kept in the loop, AI will bring a terrifying form of new bureaucracy — I call it "algocracy" — where AI will take more and more critical decisions by the rules outside of any human control. Is there a real risk? Yes.

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