comparative-advantage

The concept, borrowed from classical economics, applies to human-AI collaboration by asking not who can do a task, but who can do it at lower relative cost. Practitioners use this lens to decide which workflow steps to delegate to AI and which to retain for human judgment. Getting the division right turns out to be a process question more than a capability question, and it largely determines whether a human-AI pair outperforms either working alone.

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The Centaur Is Cheap: Why Human + AI Beats Either One Alone

Human-AI pairs beat either working alone, but the decisive factor is process, not raw capability. Drawing on Kasparov's centaur chess model, this post explains how comparative advantage between human judgment and AI execution creates results neither could achieve solo.