AI assistance in grading proposals (HBR)

Here we start to delve into the nuances of how AI can help novices and experts when evaluating the merits of innovative proposals. What comes out of these partnerships?

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/dangers-of-deferring-to-ai

At MIT Solve, Harvard business professors wanted to know if a carefully prompted AI could help sort through 2000 proposals for innovation using subjective criteria.

  • Is an expert human plus AI better than expert human alone?
  • Is a novice human plus AI better than a novice alone?
  • Does a black box AI (yes/no) answer influence humans less than an AI answer with narrative explanation?

These are tricky questions and the article gives tricky answers. It seems that humans are more 12% more likely to defer to an AI, both experts and novices. Lots more detail in the article.

These are tricky times. Are we paying attention?

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