How do individual and collective cognition emerge when using AI in multiple settings
Contact person: Sten Ludvigsen
Status: Pre-project
How do individual and collective cognition emerge when using AI; and in which ways create AI disruptions and expansions of social and cognitive/knowledge processes in multiple types of settings.
Premise 1: When powerful new tools and infrastructures are designed and used, we need to understand and explain how cognition emerges and changes, and how this influences the division of labor between humans and AI (including different types of automation and augmentation). As AI systems are used and scaled, they become cultural tools that affect both micro- and macro-level dynamics.
Premise 2: After these descriptions, we must develop appropriate causal explanations in order to predict how different AI systems can affect human cognition in the short and long term. This part will contribute to new conceptualizations across multiple fields of knowledge.
This project aims to analyze different conceptualizations of AI and why they are important for studying emerging cognition and knowledge in specific domains. Two different conceptualizations are often used: hybrid intelligence and complementary intelligence. Both bring different ideas and require further conceptual work. However, the term complementary intelligence offers a clearer stance from both cognitive AI and machine AI perspectives and seems the most promising.
The goal is to develop new scientific causal explanations of the interplay between humans and AI, not only within AI systems but also in broader sociotechnical contexts.
User partners in higher education will gain new insights into the design of learning in domain-specific areas and into what kinds of knowledge about generative AI are needed to learn and use AI in those domains. In work settings, we can establish local causal procedures for implementation and generate new knowledge about what it takes to create collective cognition/intelligence/knowledge in organizational practice.