I think this another one of those 'technology will never...' posts that gets proven wrong, and even laughed at, within a few decades. This one is particularly egregious because it misunderstands what AI can do, misunderstands the contribution, and misunderstands even what managers do. Most management activity is in the area of compliance, not goal setting. And this is really easy for a machine to do (so easy, in fact, there is a substantial anti-surveillance sentiment). And while the authors say "AI is simply a variety of prediction algorithms," so is human cognition. There's not some special skill like 'reframing' that is distinct from all other cognition. So as much as the authors tout 'thinking slowly' as something only humans (and in particular, managers) can do, I think we'll find very quickly that AI can create and optimize various scenarios a lot more efficiently than humans.
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