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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 […]

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It Feels Like AI Understands, But Do We Care? New Research on Empathy

Picture this: you receive a well-crafted, deeply understanding message about a personal struggle you鈥檝e shared. It acknowledges your emotions, offers thoughtful support, and demonstrates genuine care. Now imagine learning that response came from an AI chatbot, not another human. Would that change how you felt about the interaction? As AI technology grows more sophisticated, LLMs […]

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 […]

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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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Why AI Helps Until It Doesn’t: Inside the GenAI Wall Effect

The promise of Generative AI (GenAI) often sounds like this: give any employee access to AI tools, and they鈥檒l suddenly be able to perform tasks outside their domain of expertise with remarkable proficiency and speed. As discussed in the new working paper 鈥淭he GenAI Wall Effect: Examining the Limits to Horizontal Expertise Transfer Between Occupational […]

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Larger, Faster, Cheaper: The Future of Market Research with AI

As businesses continue to navigate the complexities of product development and innovation, generative AI has the potential to be a powerful new tool for market research. In their recent article for the 性视界 Business Review, 鈥淯sing Gen AI for Early-Stage Market Research,鈥 Ayelet Israeli, co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the 性视界 Business School […]

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