Everyone is above average - by Ethan Mollick

Is AI a Leveler, King Maker, or Escalator?

Congratulations - you are now above average! It may sound like an old, bad statistics joke, but I mean it quite literally. We now have very strong evidence that AI elevates the skills of the lowest performers across a wide range of fields to, or even far above, what was previously average performance. This is a big deal because skill gaps among humans can be quite large. In many fields, the difference between top and bottom performers is profound, including programmers, middle managers, and radiologists, among many others. If you are able to find, train, and retain these top workers, you…

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