AI as wings
AI also expands what we can do at all. I'd add a fourth mode to the steroids, sneakers, coach framework: wings.
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AI as steroids, sneakers, or a coach
The same AI tool can improve performance, erode skills, or help us learn. How we use it matters.
Welcome, AI Reviewer Two: our episode on This IS Research
Hemant Bhargava, Zhe Zhang, and I joined Nick Berente and Jan Recker on the This IS Research podcast to talk about infusing AI into peer review — and the WORTH 2027 experiment that will test it.
Optimism is a duty, and other thoughts
On why I've changed my mind about sharing opinions publicly, and a quote from Karl Popper that I think is amazing.
Fighting Fire with Fire: Infusing AI into Peer Review
Our new paper, out in Management Science, proposes deploying LLMs as a first-line reviewer in the journal process — a call to action for the information systems discipline.
AI Intensifies Work
One of my favorite reads this year argues AI doesn't reduce work — it intensifies it. This weekend I lived it.
New Tracker to Look at AI Exposure and Unemployment
The California Policy Lab and the state's EDD just launched a dashboard tracking AI exposure against unemployment insurance claims — the first government data of its kind.
Algorithmic Monoculture in Hiring
Select thoughts on our new paper, accepted at FAccT '26, which finds both racial bias and applicants who get rejected everywhere at once.
Anthropic's AI Exposure Index: Measurement Limitations Worth Knowing
The new Anthropic radar chart is an interesting construct, but the underlying measurement has limitations worth understanding.
Update Your Website (A Note to Myself and Other Scholars)
Why I finally rebuilt my academic website, and a gentle nudge for you to update yours.