Post by MIT Sloan School of Management

Generative artificial intelligence can help people lose weight at a low cost, according to a new working paper from MIT Sloan professor of marketing Catherine Tucker and Singapore Management University’s Linyi Li. Their research found that implementing a generative AI tool that provided real-time, personalized dietary recommendations increased the number of study participants who were no longer classified as obese from six people to 17 (around 4% of the total). Also in this edition of Thinking Forward: * Catherine Wolfram and Christopher Knittel on how climate change is already costing U.S. households up to $900 per year * Donald Kieffer and Nelson Repenning on implementing dynamic work design * Robert C. Merton, Zvi Bodie, and Richard Thakor on the 10 principles of finance