Kenneth Cukier
Senior Editor, The Economist
Kenneth is an associate fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, researching artificial intelligence. His TED Talk on AI and society has over 2 million views.
We’re always told that humans make bad decisions and that more data is better. But this is backwards: people are actually good at decisions because we use mental models and can envision new realities outside of data. Great outcomes don’t depend so much on the final moment of choosing but on generating better alternatives to choose between. That’s framing. It’s a cognitive muscle we can strengthen to improve our lives, work and future — to meet our moment of economic upheaval, social tensions and existential threats. Framers shows how.
Details
Publication date:
May 2021
May 2021
Publisher:
WH Allen
WH Allen
ISBN:
978-0753554982
978-0753554982
Authors
Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.
Professor Francis de Véricourt
Professor of Management Science, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin
His research explores how machine learning affects the way individuals frame their decisions and give rise to incentive problems.