When asked how she knew she wanted to be a business school professor, Negin (Nikki) Golrezaei said: "I was drawn to the opportunity to conduct rigorous research on practical and impactful problems in digital platforms. The ability to study these systems analytically and share that knowledge with the next generation through teaching made this career feel like a perfect fit."

Associate dean for business analytics Dimitris Bertsimas said: "Education has a social component. If the only thing you do is online education and you have no human experience, no personal relation with your classmates, no personal relationship with your teachers, the data suggests that it is not as satisfying in a somewhat impersonal online experience."

A recent paper by professor Roberto Rigobon and postdoctoral associate Isabella Loaiza-Saa evaluated AI's effects on the U.S. labor force by focusing on humans' capabilities, rather than AI's. "We need to focus on what it is that humans can do so that we can complement machines," said Loaiza-Saa.

The Sloan Fellows MBA program is a great option to consider for those who are ready to explore a different path, and put ideas into action. "The opportunity to step away from the working world for one year allows SFMBA students to fully immerse in a global network of peers to learn from, and experiment with different courses and industry interests, in a supportive environment," said Dawna Levenson, assistant dean of admissions.

The two disciplines of AI and philosophy might seem like polar opposites, but lecturer Michael Schrage and executive director of MIT Sloan Management Review David Kiron, argued that one can't function without the other: "When implementing AI, most organizations obsess over the technology, but our research reveals a surprising truth. Philosophy is what truly determines AI success."

In their paper Can ChatGPT Plan Your Retirement?, professor Andrew W. Lo and co-author argued that AI-powered financial advisers could represent the future of financial planning. However, they noted that these tools still require significant improvement before they can truly replace human advisers.

Research going back to the 1940s has linked automation to degraded job quality and opportunities for workers, said MIT IDE digital fellow Matt Beane (SM '14, PhD '17). "Generally, the better we get at automating the humans left in the building, especially at low-paid, entry-level frontline jobs, they are, unless very artfully managed, just going to get quite deskilled," said Beane.