Towards a responsible AI-driven transformation of work (RESP-AI)

Descripción del proyecto

Trabajar en un nuevo plan de acción para la inteligencia artificial

Los avances en inteligencia artificial (IA) no solo crean oportunidades de empleo, sino que transforman el mundo laboral. Aunque algunas personas advierten que la IA destruirá puestos de trabajo y generará un desempleo masivo, otras argumentan que la IA mejorará las condiciones laborales y permitirá la consecución de innovaciones. Ambos campos parecen ignorar que el futuro laboral sigue estando abierto: dicho futuro depende en gran medida de cómo se implementa la IA en las organizaciones. En este contexto, el proyecto RESP-AI, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrollará un plan de acción para guiar a las organizaciones en cuanto a la transformación laboral responsable al adoptar la IA. Mediante la combinación de métodos conceptuales, cuantitativos y cualitativos vanguardistas, el proyecto estudiará la transformación del empleo impulsada por la IA en muchos sectores.

Objetivo

While there is no doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring about an unprecedented transformation of work, researchers are still hotly debating how AI will transform work. The AI-pessimists warn against massive unemployment and the risks that AI deskills and enslaves humans. The AI-optimists laud AI’s potential to improve working lives and to enable innovating as never before. Both camps seem to ignore that the future of work is still open: this future very much depends on how AI is deployed in organizations. The future of work can be bright for both organizations and workers if organizations start right now responsibly reskilling and retraining workers to collaborate with AI, unleashing the extraordinary innovative potential of this new form of collaborations while providing workers with more meaningful work. Today, there is, however, close to no scientific work to guide organizations in responsibly transforming work when adopting AI. My interdisciplinary research project addresses this urgent gap. Combining innovative and cutting-edge qualitative, quantitative, and conceptual methods, I will deliver three scientific papers and a roadmap to fulfill two broad objectives. My first objective is to provide an in-depth understanding of the state of affairs regarding the AI-driven transformation of work in multiple organizations and across multiple sectors (How is work transforming? How is this transformation affecting workers? How responsible has the transformation been so far?). Then, based on a good grasp of both organizations’ and workers’ needs linked to the AI-driven transformation of work, my second objective is to provide a roadmap to guide managers on how to transform work responsibly to unleash AI innovative potential and ensure a bright future for workers. The project is not only highly scholarly innovative, it is also highly relevant for the competiveness of EU firms and for EU workers (special attention will be paid to women).