Papers/Projects

Is AI Everywhere? A New Way “AI Hype” Shapes Social Science Research

Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its use has proliferated, matching the pace of technological advances in the field of AI and its presence in business and science. While encouraging, I propose that this rapid, recent, and far-reaching interest in AI is also affecting ostensibly unrelated research. In a mixed methods program of research, I first introduce the idea of AI demand effects and reveal surprisingly strong evidence of it in two, mixed methods studies of leadership. This work contributes to the science of leadership science as well as modern methods in social science more broadly.

What Works to Reduce Algorithm Anxiety at Work?

Funded by the University of Zurich Digital Society Initiative. (See here for the publication - in German).

Robot Leadership: A Hard Truth Powered by Soft Skills?

Is leadership exclusively human? What would the world look like if socially-skilled robots stepped into the roles normally reserved for humans? Can “soft skills” such as humor–often touted as exclusively human skills essential for the "future of work and leadership"–power robots' rise into leadership roles? We explore these questions–and more–in this new thought-piece (see here for the publication in European Business Review).

Presentations

Humanzing the In-human: How (and Why) Does this Apply for Leadership and AI?

Click here for a video from the Applied Machine Learning Days conference in Lausanne (February 2020)