While much public discourse centers on concerns of advanced technologies substituting for and displacing human workers, new research from the MIT Sloan School of Management presents a different perspective — moving beyond simply identifying jobs at risk from AI and highlighting areas where human expertise will remain important and complementary to technological advancements.

The paper, “The EPOCH of AI: Human-Machine Complementarities at Work” offers a framework of human-intensive capabilities and a set of metrics to evaluate tasks across all occupations and better understand the effects of AI on the labor market. Authors are Roberto Rigobon, the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management at MIT Sloan, and postdoctoral associate Isabella Loaiza.