PYMNTS.com April 1, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to disrupt industries across the globe, Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and a member of Amazon‘s board of directors, offered a candid roadmap for business leaders looking to deploy AI effectively.
His message was clear: Don’t just adopt AI — experiment with it, understand its limitations and integrate it with human decision-making to unlock its full potential.
“Machine learning is going to reinvent many areas of work,” Huttenlocher said Tuesday (April 1) in a keynote address at the 2025 MIT AI Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “If you don’t have skunk works projects, you’re going to be left behind.”
Huttenlocher said businesses do not necessarily need to make big upfront investments...