{"id":177443,"date":"2023-12-05T03:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-sports-analogy-for-understanding-different-ways-to-use-ai"},"modified":"2023-12-05T03:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:22:21","slug":"a-sports-analogy-for-understanding-different-ways-to-use-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-sports-analogy-for-understanding-different-ways-to-use-ai","title":{"rendered":"A Sports Analogy for Understanding Different Ways to Use AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-sports-analogy-for-understanding-different-ways-to-use-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The potential impact of generative AI on the economy, society, and work is polarizing, swinging from the positive benefits of a technological revolution to doomsday scenarios. The authors have come to think about this issue as points on a spectrum and have created a sports analogy to help think about it: AI tools can range from steroids, to sneakers, to a coach, each representing a different relationship between human users and the technology. Steroids elevate short-term performance, but leave you worse off in the long term. AI-powered tools can instead be used to augment people\u2019s skills and make them more productive \u2014 much like a good running sneaker. On the most desirable end of the spectrum, AI-powered tools can be used like a coach that improves people\u2019s own capabilities. This framework can be used to help conceptualize how we might craft AI-based tools that enhance rather than diminish human capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Page-utils class= article-utils\u2014vertical hide-for-print data-js-target= page-utils data-id= tag: blogs.harvardbusiness.org, 2007\/03\/31:999.368607 data-title= A Sports Analogy for Understanding Different Ways to Use AI data-url=\/2023\/12\/a-sports-analogy-for-understanding-different-ways-to-use-ai data-topic= AI and machine learning data-authors= Jake M. Hofman; Daniel G. Goldstein; David M. Rothschild data-content-type= Digital Article data-content-image=\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2023\/11\/Nov23_22_200404124-001-383x215.jpg data-summary=<\/p>\n<p>Will next-gen tools be used as a steroid, sneaker, or coach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential impact of generative AI on the economy, society, and work is polarizing, swinging from the positive benefits of a technological revolution to doomsday scenarios. The authors have come to think about this issue as points on a spectrum and have created a sports analogy to help think about it: AI tools can range [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}