Description

Explore the research questions that have been generated by participants at the WAIM workshops.

Impact of AI on team processes

  • What are the implication of co-working with Machines/algorithms?
  • How will AI affect the social fabric (and related social theories) of organizational work? E.g. teams, culture, org. Identity, etc.
  • Under what circumstances do AI-related technologies affect workforce collaboration, cohesion, and performance?
  • What the implications for changing relations of power and control in the workplace?

Impacts of AI systems on individual workers

  • How would workers respond to the inclusion of virtual characters and AI agents in the workplace?
  • What are the potential negative consequences of adopting virtual characters in workplace?
  • Will working with intelligent machines (vs. other human workers) make people feel like a machine (i.e. feeling of dehumanization)?
  • How will AI change interpersonal relationships at work, with peers, and bosses for instance?
  • Whether and when people would bond with robots more than human in a team?