How Knowledge Workers Think Generative AI Will (Not) Transform Their Industries
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06778v2
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:51:16 GMT
- Title: How Knowledge Workers Think Generative AI Will (Not) Transform Their Industries
- Authors: Allison Woodruff, Renee Shelby, Patrick Gage Kelley, Steven Rousso-Schindler, Jamila Smith-Loud, Lauren Wilcox,
- Abstract summary: Generative AI is expected to have transformative effects in multiple knowledge industries.
We conducted participatory research workshops for seven different industries, with a total of 54 participants across three US cities.
We describe participants' expectations of generative AI's impact, including a dominant narrative that cut across the groups' discourse.
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- Abstract: Generative AI is expected to have transformative effects in multiple knowledge industries. To better understand how knowledge workers expect generative AI may affect their industries in the future, we conducted participatory research workshops for seven different industries, with a total of 54 participants across three US cities. We describe participants' expectations of generative AI's impact, including a dominant narrative that cut across the groups' discourse: participants largely envision generative AI as a tool to perform menial work, under human review. Participants do not generally anticipate the disruptive changes to knowledge industries currently projected in common media and academic narratives. Participants do however envision generative AI may amplify four social forces currently shaping their industries: deskilling, dehumanization, disconnection, and disinformation. We describe these forces, and then we provide additional detail regarding attitudes in specific knowledge industries. We conclude with a discussion of implications and research challenges for the HCI community.
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