Human + AI is how you win

There’s a gap (or gulf) between what CEOs expect from AI and what they’re actually getting.

So what’s that 25% doing right? They don’t prompt and pray, they keep a human in the loop. They don’t rely 100% on AI to do their work--coding, accounting, writing, whatever.

A recent study by Stanford and Carnegie Mellon found that “agents as initial collaborators encourage higher performance in achieving the task outcomes of the user.”

So, for example, if you’re writing a thought-leadership piece, sure, use AI for your drafts but finish it with a human. If you just tell AI, “Here, you do it,” it’s likely to fail (and it won’t tell you when it does).

The study is titled “How Do AI Agents Do Human Work? Comparing AI and Human Workflows Across Diverse Occupations.” The salient numbers are these:

>Fully autonomous AI agents fail 32% to 49% more often than humans working alone on complex tasks and fabricate plausible but false data when they can’t interpret information.

>Hybrid teams (human + AI) outperform fully autonomous AI by 68.7%.