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So happy this is out! Our recent @jbv_insights study shows how #entrepreneurs contribute with social innovations to mitigating the #COVID19 crisis through improvised venturing, rapid pivots and pro-social market extensions. authors.elsevier.com/c/1cNKZ8MxvtVL… @MGMTBSS @itim_bss #SDGs

How effective is human-AI collaboration? A meta-analysis of 106 studies just published in @NaturHumBehav reports an interesting result: On average, there was no synergy: Human–AI combinations did not perform better than both humans and AI. In particular, when the AI alone outperformed the human alone, the human–AI combination led to performance losses, likely because humans were unable to integrate the suggestions provided by the AI. Conversely, when the human outperformed the AI alone, there was some synergy and human–AI combination led to performance gains, likely because this time humans were better at integrating the AI suggestions. Paper: nature.com/articles/s4156…

For parents who want to help their kids with a hard school concept but don't want them to use AI directly: Show the LLM the problem your kid is stuck on and prompt: "how can I, as a parent, explain to my kid, grade N, how to solve this" and then use the advice to help tutor them

Are you looking for effective ways to develop your ideas into a top management journal article? Check out this insightful new editorial in the Academy of Management Journal (@AOMConnect) by Sinziana Dorobantu, @MarcBGruber, Davide Ravasi, and Ned Wellman. They introduce the "AMJ Management Research Canvas," a valuable tool for mapping out your paper ideas. You can read it here: journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.54….

If you did a masters thesis with a qualitative orientation and are interested in studying AI@Work please consider applying to join us at the VU! werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/two-…

Join us for our AOM Showcase Panel Symposium: 767: Qualitative Methods and AI: Friends or Foes? (10117) with #KevinCorley #Vernglaser #KarenGoldenBiddle @H_DigInnovation #AnneSmith Save the date #AOM2024 @susanhilbolling @AOMConnect @Strategizers @AOM_CTO #ResearchMethods

How do AI work professionals deal with the moral issues associated with potential harms that may come with creative ideas? 🤔 "Bright & dark imagining: How creators navigate moral consequences of developing ideas for artificial intelligence" 💡(👉🏾 journals.aom.org/doi/epub/10.54…)

Right. Yet: Most = 75% of companies saw no change in need for workers, given genAI use. 10% saw decreased need. 15% saw need for different kinds (i.e., replacing 15%). 2% saw increased need. If accurate, these are big employment changes, really fast, actually.

This is it, folks, this is it! The "GPTs are GPTs" paper is now officially published in @ScienceMagazine. Massive kudos to the authors for the impressive revisions, and I'm so glad you got (I presume) such thoughtful reviewers. Really excited to dig in. Everyone must read.

Hey managers: to keep your people, let them work from home 2 days a week. Landmark experiment (1600+ ppl, 2yrs): random assignment to hybrid work -Increased satisfaction -Reduced quitting by 33% (especially for women & long commuters) -No costs for performance or promotion rates

The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines is off to the printer! Nearly four years ago, I began the messy, ill-advised journey of writing it, and early praise says it delivers. Pre-order, learn more: theskillcodebook.com #TheSkillCode 🧬

AI: Your New Writing Partner - great video by @Antoine__V youtu.be/5znBt_ScE6s?si… via @YouTube

Join in! Tomorrow, 9am pst I present new research @erikbryn's @DigEconLab on how workers and automation can complement each other. “Engineering Skill: How Developing AI-Enabled Robots and Nonprofessional Ability Went Hand in Hand at JointBot” Register: tinyurl.com/34z3khkz

🚨 AI Policy Alert: The German Federal Office for Information Security publishes the report "Generative AI Models - Opportunities and Risks for Industry and Authorities." Quotes & comments: "LLMs are trained based on huge text corpora. The origin of these texts and their quality are generally not fully verified due to the large amount of data. Therefore, personal or copyrighted data, as well as texts with questionable, false, or discriminatory content (e.g., disinformation, propaganda, or hate messages), may be included in the training set. When generating outputs, these contents may appear in these outputs either verbatim or slightly altered (Weidinger, et al., 2022). Imbalances in the training data can also lead to biases in the model" (page 9) - "If individual data points are disproportionately present in the training data, there is a risk that the model cannot adequately learn the desired data distribution and, depending on the extent, tends to produce repetitive, one-sided, or incoherent outputs (known as model collapse). It is expected that this problem will increasingly occur in the future, as LLM-generated data becomes more available on the internet and is used to train new LLMs (Shumailov, et al., 2023). This could lead to self-reinforcing effects, which is particularly critical in cases where texts with abuse potential have been generated, or when a bias in text data becomes entrenched. This happens, for example, as more and more relevant texts are produced and used again for training new models, which in turn generate a multitude of texts (Bender, et al., 2021)." (page 10) - "The high linguistic quality of the model outputs, combined with user-friendly access via APIs and the enormous flexibility of responses from currently popular LLMs, makes it easier for criminals to misuse the models for a targeted generation of misinformation (De Angelis, et al., 2023), propaganda texts, hate messages, product reviews, or posts for social media." ➡️ According to the report, special attention should be given to the following aspects: ➵ Raising awareness of users; ➵ Testing; ➵ Handling sensitive data; ➵ Establishing transparency; ➵ Auditing of inputs and outputs; ➵ Paying attention to (indirect) prompt injections; ➵ Selection and management of training data; ➵ Developing practical expertise. ➡️ Of the dozens of AI reports published lately, this one is especially detailed regarding AI-related risk and potential countermeasures. ➡️The document is a must-read for people developing AI or working on AI policymaking and regulation, especially pages 8-28. ➡️ Link to the @BSI_Bund report below. ➡️ For more information on AI policy and regulation, subscribe to my weekly newsletter (link in bio).

UNESCO’s Ethics of AI team is recruiting! We're looking for 6 experts to contribute to cutting-edge projects on the ethical governance of AI across the following workstreams (please note the deadlines for applications are 16-17 April):

Please share with talented prospective PhD candidates: The @UvA_Amsterdam invites applications for a PhD in #strategy & #organization to study the social context of organizational and market transformation for #sustainability Link: lnkd.in/dvkUuGyJ @AOMConnect @AOM_OMT

"Nurturing a space where women can grow authentically can offer a whole new perspective to the #AI world." To celebrate Women at Imperial Week, we spoke to our I-X experts about the impact of #AI on #genderequality.💙 Hear from #OurImperial community ⬇️ imperial.ac.uk/news/251845/br…

What will AI do? In most cases, the answer is: AI will do whatever we choose it to do. The direction of new technology is not predetermined, it is a choice that is up to us. Thank you again to all who joined the launch of @MITshapingwork, there is much more to come.

🚨 Our new paper: we know that GPT-4 generates better ideas than most people, but the ideas are kind of similar & variance matters But it turns out that better prompting can generate pools of good ideas that are almost as diverse as from a group of humans papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

📣Amazing Opportunity Alert! 🎉 Are you struggling with the #theorization of your #qualitativedata? Are you looking for expert advice? Join our #workshop on "Theorizing Qualitative Data" this May at @AaltoBIZ ✨ Read more and apply here (by March 8th): ethnographyatelier.org/meet-ups

Are you interested in applying Process Research Methods in your PhD research? In March 2024 I am offering a course at KIN / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, including a three-day module on campus and online sessions. More information & enrollment: vu.nl/en/education/p…