The Human-Machine Knowledge Spiral
General Economics
2026-06-28 v1 Computers and Society
Abstract
Nonaka emphasized that innovation is the result of a continuous back-and-forth between tacit and explicit knowledge. Artificial intelligence introduces a fundamentally new object into this process -- tacit machine knowledge -- but Nonaka's ideas are more relevant than ever. The central role of the knowledge-creating company remains the same: to create the shared context in which different kinds of knowledge can feed off each other, become organizational knowledge, and set off further cycles of innovation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2606.29227,
title = {The Human-Machine Knowledge Spiral},
author = {Aaron Chatterji and Daniel Rock and Eduard Talamas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.29227},
year = {2026}
}