Events
OTTRS Speaker Series: “When AI Makes the Team”
Event Start Date: Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:00 pm
Event End Date: Friday, November 15, 2024 - 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual/Zoom, Registration TBD
UMD students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends—join us for the OTTRS Speaker Series! (Registration required)
Abstract:
Recent technological advances are shifting the role of AI from tool to teammate, sparking a surge of interest in human-AI teams. In fact, tech giants now market “AI teammates,” and military agencies sponsor research on human-AI teams. This new form of teamwork raises the question: how can we apply our knowledge of human teams to enhance teamwork with AI? Importantly, AI agents differ fundamentally from humans, impacting the potential effectiveness of human-centered models for human-AI teamwork. In this talk, I will review my recent research that draws on human-centered models of teamwork to facilitate effective human-AI teamwork. These projects examine the conditions under which AI “makes the team,” such as when teammates are most receptive to an AI teammate, the functional roles teammates are most comfortable with AI enacting, and the mental capabilities humans should perceive in their AI to be considered an AI teammate. I will also discuss how, by studying human-AI teams, we may also strengthen our foundational understanding of traditional teams.
Lindsay Larson, Assistant Professor, Florida International University
Bio:
Lindsay Larson is an Assistant Professor of Global Leadership and Management at Florida International University. She earned her PhD in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University. Before joining FIU, Lindsay completed a two-year postdoctoral research associate position at UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Lindsay adopts an interdisciplinary lens, integrating work from organizational behavior, psychology, communication, and human-computer interaction, to further organizational theorizing on leading and working in teams in the digital age. In particular, Lindsay is interested in the interpersonal dynamics and functioning of the people in technologically-advanced teams, from human-AI teams to cross-functional, geographically distributed science teams.
Virtual/Zoom, Registration TBD
UMD students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends—join us for the OTTRS Speaker Series! (Registration required)
Abstract:
Recent technological advances are shifting the role of AI from tool to teammate, sparking a surge of interest in human-AI teams. In fact, tech giants now market “AI teammates,” and military agencies sponsor research on human-AI teams. This new form of teamwork raises the question: how can we apply our knowledge of human teams to enhance teamwork with AI? Importantly, AI agents differ fundamentally from humans, impacting the potential effectiveness of human-centered models for human-AI teamwork. In this talk, I will review my recent research that draws on human-centered models of teamwork to facilitate effective human-AI teamwork. These projects examine the conditions under which AI “makes the team,” such as when teammates are most receptive to an AI teammate, the functional roles teammates are most comfortable with AI enacting, and the mental capabilities humans should perceive in their AI to be considered an AI teammate. I will also discuss how, by studying human-AI teams, we may also strengthen our foundational understanding of traditional teams.
Lindsay Larson, Assistant Professor, Florida International University
Bio:
Lindsay Larson is an Assistant Professor of Global Leadership and Management at Florida International University. She earned her PhD in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University. Before joining FIU, Lindsay completed a two-year postdoctoral research associate position at UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Lindsay adopts an interdisciplinary lens, integrating work from organizational behavior, psychology, communication, and human-computer interaction, to further organizational theorizing on leading and working in teams in the digital age. In particular, Lindsay is interested in the interpersonal dynamics and functioning of the people in technologically-advanced teams, from human-AI teams to cross-functional, geographically distributed science teams.
Speaker(s): Lindsay Larson, Assistant Professor, Florida International University