Is artificial intelligence the technology that will finally make humans obsolete?

Every technological innovation throughout history has been accompanied by doomsayers who predict that it will eliminate the need for human labor. Artificial intelligence (and its most recent manifestation, ChatGPT) is no exception. Will this powerful tool finally fulfill a vision of machines taking over our work — specifically, in the area of supply chain management? That’s just one of the topics tackled in The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, AI and the Future of Work. We welcome back to the show the author, Yossi Sheffi, Elisha Gray II professor of engineering systems at MIT, to discuss the potential impact of AI and robotics on the supply chain discipline. We’ll talk about the technology’s upsides and downsides, and how we can prevent the latter from overwhelming the former. Hosted by Bob Bowman, Editor-in-Chief of SupplyChainBrain.

Show notes:

Sheffi’s book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, AI and the Future of Work.