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Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming knowledge work, yet its implications for organizational hierarchies remain poorly understood. Unlike earlier automation technologies, GenAI can both perform tasks autonomously and assist human…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-25 Fasheng Xu , Jing Hou , Wei Chen , Karen Xie

Quantifying the workplace productivity effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence is now central to economics, management, and public policy. The deployment of AI tools in customer service, writing, software development, and consulting…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Silvia Bartolucci , Pierpaolo Vivo

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are getting ubiquitous within our society, issues related to its fairness, accountability, and transparency are increasing rapidly. As a result, researchers are integrating humans with AI systems to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Nikhil Prakash , Kory W. Mathewson

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents are increasingly embedded in collaborative learning environments, yet their impact on the processes of argumentative knowledge construction remains insufficiently understood. Emerging…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Lixiang Yan , Yueqiao Jin , Linxuan Zhao , Roberto Martinez-Maldonado , Xinyu Li , Xiu Guan , Wenxin Guo , Xibin Han , Dragan Gašević

Generative AI is altering work processes, task composition, and organizational design, yet its effects on employment and the macroeconomy remain unresolved. In this review, we synthesize theory and empirical evidence at three levels. First,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-09-22 R. Maria del Rio-Chanona , Ekkehard Ernst , Rossana Merola , Daniel Samaan , Ole Teutloff

We formalize AI-human collaboration through an agent-based simulation that distinguishes optimization-based AI search from satisficing-based human adaptation. Using an NK model, we examine how these distinct decision heuristics interact…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Prothit Sen , Sai Mihir Jakkaraju

This perspective paper examines a fundamental paradox in the relationship between professional expertise and artificial intelligence: as domain experts increasingly collaborate with AI systems by externalizing their implicit knowledge, they…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-14 Venkat Ram Reddy Ganuthula , Krishna Kumar Balaraman

Generative AI brings novel and impressive abilities to help people in everyday tasks. There are many AI workflows that solve real and complex problems by chaining AI outputs together with human interaction. Although there is an undeniable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Tao Long , Katy Ilonka Gero , Lydia B. Chilton

AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Judy Hanwen Shen , Alex Tamkin

Generative AI is reshaping higher education, yet research has focused largely on students, while instructors remain understudied despite their central role in mediating adoption and modeling responsible use. We present the \textit{AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Si Chen , Xiuxiu Tang , Alison Cheng , Nitesh Chawla , G. Alex Ambrose , Ronald Metoyer

This study investigates whether assessments fostering higher-order thinking skills can reduce plagiarism involving generative AI tools. Participants completed three tasks of varying complexity in four groups: control, e-textbook, Google,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Sacip Toker , Mahir Akgun

Prevailing methods for assessing and comparing generative AIs incentivize responses that serve a hypothetical representative individual. Evaluating models in these terms presumes homogeneous preferences across the population and engenders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Dilip Arumugam , Shi Dong , Benjamin Van Roy

Generative AI compresses within-task skill differences while shifting economic value toward concentrated complementary assets, creating an apparent paradox: the technology that equalizes individual performance may widen aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xupeng Chen , Shuchen Meng

Effective human-AI collaboration hinges on the ability to dynamically integrate the complementary strengths of human experts and AI models across diverse decision contexts. Context-aware weighted combination of human and AI outputs is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Renlong Jie

In a wide array of areas, algorithms are matching and surpassing the performance of human experts, leading to consideration of the roles of human judgment and algorithmic prediction in these domains. The discussion around these…

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We examined the mechanisms underlying productivity and performance gains from AI agents using a large-scale experiment on Pairit, a platform we developed to study human-AI collaboration. We randomly assigned 2,234 participants to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Harang Ju , Sinan Aral

The recent rapid advancement of LLM-based AI systems has accelerated our search and production of information. While the advantages brought by these systems seemingly improve the performance or efficiency of human activities, they do not…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Katelyn Xiaoying Mei , Nic Weber

This paper examines whether artificial intelligence (AI) acts as a substitute or complement to human labour, drawing on 12 million online job vacancies from the United States spanning 2018-2023. We adopt a two-pronged approach: first,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-02-27 Elina Mäkelä , Fabian Stephany

We introduce a framework for understanding the impact of generative AI on human work, which we call the human-AI task tensor. A tensor is a structured framework that organizes tasks along multiple interdependent dimensions. Our human-AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Anil R. Doshi , Alastair Moore