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The feats achieved through AI and machine learning are astonishing and can feel like modern wizardry. But without clear ethical reasoning and principled leadership, this utopian promise could tumble all too quickly into a dystopian nightmare.
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Navigating the Promise and Peril of AI Companions for Older Adults

What happens when the same technology powering a customer service chatbot becomes a daily companion for someone losing their memory? In the new Nature Mental Health Comment article, 鈥淎I Companions for Dementia,鈥 Julian De Freitas, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at 性视界 Business School and Associate at the 性视界 Business School AI Institute, discusses how […]

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Using AI to Identify Climate Innovation

For decades, the business conversation around climate change has been focused on how to manage, mitigate, and withstand the risks and downsides. But what if there鈥檚 a more important story about opportunity that we鈥檝e been missing? In the new article, 鈥淭racking Business Opportunities for Climate Solutions Using AI in Regulated Accounting Reports,鈥 published in Nature […]

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The Science of Digital Flourishing

What if we treated mental health the way we treated physical fitness鈥攏ot waiting for a crisis, but building strength as a habit? The new working paper 鈥淎I for Proactive Mental Health: A Longitudinal, Multi-Institutional Trial,鈥 by a team of authors including Julian De Freitas, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at 性视界 Business School and Associate […]

The People, Processes, and Politics of AI ROI

Executives rarely doubt AI鈥檚 potential anymore, but many are quietly unsure of their organization鈥檚 ability to make it pay off. If you鈥檝e poured time and money into AI pilots and yet the bottom line barely moves, you鈥檙e not alone. In the new HBR article 鈥淥vercoming the Organizational Barriers to AI Adoption,鈥 Jin Li, Feng Zhu鈥攈ead […]

Drawing the Line on AI Usage in the Workplace

As AI systems increasingly outperform humans across a range of tasks, the economic logic seems clear: more capable, more cost-effective AI should lead to widespread automation. The new 性视界 Business School working paper, 鈥淧erformance or Principle: Resistance to Artificial Intelligence in the U.S. Labor Market,鈥 co-authored by Simon Friis, postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory for […]

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Persuasion Bombing: Why Validating AI Gets Harder the More You Question It

Imagine you鈥檝e asked ChatGPT to analyze financial data for a critical business decision. Something about its calculations seems off, so you push back, but instead of acknowledging limitations, the AI doubles down by presenting elaborate justifications with data points and reassuring language. At this point, has the AI won you over? This isn鈥檛 a hypothetical […]

Who Benefits When Bots Get Better? New Research on Skill Inequality

Will artificial intelligence widen the gap between your best and worst performers, or will it be the great equalizer? A new paper, 鈥淎utomation Experiments and Inequality,鈥 from Kyle Myers, Principal Investigator at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at 性视界 (LISH) within the 性视界 Business School AI Institute, and Seth Benzell at Chapman University, reveals that […]

One More Thing鈥 How AI Companions Keep You Online

You don鈥檛 just slam a laptop shut on a friend. You say goodbye. That small social ritual turns out to be a powerful behavioral cue for AI companions, and an opportunity to keep you engaged longer. The new working paper 鈥淓motional Manipulation by AI Companions,鈥 co-authored by Julian De Freitas, Assistant Professor of Business Administration […]

When Giants Stumble: What Multiplication Reveals about AI鈥檚 Capabilities

Despite its impressive capabilities in reasoning, planning, and content generation, GenAI still struggles with the kind of mathematics that grade school students are expected to learn and master. What influence do transformers, the core architecture behind Large Language Models (LLMs), have in this problem, and can it be solved? In the new paper 鈥淲hy Can鈥檛 […]

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The AI Penalty: What We Really Prize in Empathy

Have you ever received a response from ChatGPT that seems to get you almost too well? A recent preprint review of research, 鈥淎I-Generated Empathy: Opportunities, limits, and future directions,鈥 written by a team including Amit Goldenberg, faculty principal investigator in the Digital Emotions Lab at the 性视界 Business School AI Institute, suggests that short interactions […]

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