Thomas Malone confirmed that working "remotely" has become an available and practical option
INTERVIEW.. American scientist: The field of work in the future will witness cooperation between machine and human
Thomas Malone: We humans are going to drive and machines are here to improve our lives.
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An expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Thomas Malone, believes that the return of employees in the United States to offices is currently unlikely.
The American scientist, who founded the Center for Collective Intelligence at the Institute, believes that the machine will play a greater role in the future, and he explained this in his recent book entitled "Super Minds", as elites will cooperate, in various fields, with the support of technology.
Here are excerpts from an interview with The Washington Post:
■ It seems that we do not know what our offices will look like in a year or a month.. How do you see things?
■■ I have a lot to say about it, but it comes down to this: We learned over the course of a few weeks, in March and April of last year, that we can actually do a lot of things online, rather than going to the office, or visiting a client to cut a deal. What, there are many jobs that require physical presence, of course, but when that's not the case, I can see no reason to go back to the traditional office.
■ It feels like a lot of CEOs want it, even if a lot of employees don't?
■■ The VIPs seem to be the last to understand this.
I wonder if part of it is that people who have risen to the top of organizations are really good at interacting face to face, so they overestimate things, but that's where the super brain comes in, all the employees who know they can do the work remotely, with the help of computers They are a very powerful force.
■ What about the government? It seems that all this interconnectedness we love in our professional lives has divided our civic lives, with misinformation and a distortion of democracy?
■■ I think some new super brains can help in this context, and if we think about it, what the founders did was basically invent new super brains, including the idea of government, representative democracy, and so on.
It has worked well for a long time, however, its effectiveness is increasingly being called into question, due to both the problems and potential of IT, so we need to focus on the possibilities, and need to devise some new super-minds to manage the risks and what lies ahead.
■ You are said to be an optimist, do you hope that these technologies will eventually be useful to us?
■■ I am an optimist, but not blindly.
We lose some cognitive abilities, but this is always the case.
In the wild, our ancestors easily found their way, cutting wood, and hunting wild animals.
And most of us, right now, can't do that, and it might be good one day that people won't be able to do the math, and I'm not too worried, because they'll develop the skills to do new things instead.
■ This is part of your general thinking about humans and computers, some kind of collaboration?
■■ The popular saying in AI is now 'humans in the loop', making sure that humans are not left behind.
But this may be the wrong way to look at things, we humans are going to lead, and machines are here to improve our lives, which is why I don't say 'humans in the loop', but 'computers in the pack', we use them.
• I am an optimist, but not blindly. We lose some cognitive abilities, but this is always the case.
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