When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants

When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants

Ensure a smooth coexistence between employees and artificial intelligence devices.

Author(s): Walter Frick

Publisher: Harvard Business Review

Date of publication: 2015

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Summary

How to ensure that employees collaborate with AI devices on “good terms”? Whether voluntary or not, there is a defiant reaction at first: the perception of some form of competition, worries as to the reliability of the forecasts or of the “judgments” of robots, fear of work dehumanization, etc. How to lift this reluctance?and establish a harmonious cooperation that enables the company to make the most out of both humans and machines? This article presents the latest research on the subject, borrowing from ergonomics, behavioral psychology and also from the representation of robots in popular culture.