David De Cremer and Garry Kasparov argue in this Harvard Business Review article that AI should augment human intelligence rather than replace it. They highlight that AI is projected to add as much as $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, but caution against the growing trend of organizations displacing human workers with intelligent machines across manufacturing, service delivery, recruitment, and finance.
The authors emphasize that people and AI bring different abilities and strengths to the table. Rather than viewing AI as a wholesale replacement for human workers — a trend that could make the workforce "totally unrecognizable" by 2040 — the real question organizations should be asking is how human intelligence can effectively collaborate with artificial intelligence to produce better outcomes than either could achieve alone.