[AISWorld] Call for Papers: HICSS Mini-track on AI & Organizing

[Aron Lindberg]

We would like to invite submissions to our mini-track on "AI & Organizing" at HICSS 53 (http://hicss.hawaii.edu/).

Software tools using artificial intelligence (AI) methods are now being used within a variety of organizational routines and practices, creating new types of human-machine configurations and playing an increasing role in the context of contemporary organizing (Seidel et al. 2018; Seidel et al. 2019). Examples can be found across areas such as management decision making, manufacturing, and even design and creative applications (e.g. Ambach and Repenning 1996; Kittur et al. 2019). These tools can be described as rational agents that based on certain input parameters autonomously—-with little or no user intervention—-perform tasks in guided by their underlying model and associated function. They constitute a new type of material agency in the context of contemporary organizing.

But what are the consequences of using AI tools--both at the level of structures and organizational activity? Since such agents often rely on complex internal processing, their behavior is less predictable than the types of IT artifacts we are used to dealing with (Xiao and Benbasat 2007). This opens up a number of problem areas with regards to organizing (Puranam et al. 2014). For example: how does coordination shift as AI tools are used, and what new types of organizational hierarchies and structures emerge? How do power relations change, and how do different organizational actors use these new technologies to reshape power relations? What is the impact of using AI on those processes that have traditionally been seen as being entirely driven and controlled by humans?
The proposed mini-track aims to contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms through which humans organize together with AI tools and agents of various kinds.

We aim at providing a platform for thought in this important and emergent niche within information systems and IT research. We invite both conceptual and empirical contributions using different methodological approaches (qualitative, quantitative, design-oriented, simulation, etc.).

In addition to the questions raised above, potential topics include, but are not limited to:

* AI & coordination: How does AI change the way humans coordinate?
* AI & power: How does AI affect corporations, markets, and peer production structures?
* AI & governance: Who runs the technology? What does the technology run?
* AI & design: What does AI design? Should it design itself?
* AI & innovation: How does AI foster innovation?
* AI & crowds: What do crowds do for machine learning, and what’s in it for the crowds?
* AI & organizational routines: How does AI change the nature of work?

Important deadlines:
April 15, 2019: Beginning of Submission Period
June 15, 2019: Paper Submission Deadline (11:59 pm HST)
August 17, 2019: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
September 22, 2019: Deadline for Final Manuscript
October 1, 2019: Deadline for at least one author to register

Best,
Aron Lindberg (aron.lindberg at stevens.edu), Stefan Seidel (stefan.seidel at uni.li), & Jeff Nickerson (jnickers at stevens.edu)