The Astonishing Results of an Unintended Field Study that Turned into an Experiment
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I worked with four AI agents (Dorothy ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini Pro, and Perplexity) for four days (November 24-27) to produce the paper “The Anthropology of...
Hybrid Intelligence Teams: A Theoretical Framework for Human–AI Collaboration in Knowledge Work
This paper develops a theory of Hybrid Intelligence Teams (HITs)-persistent groups composed of multiple humans and multiple AI agents working interdependently to accomplish knowledge-intensive tasks. We argue that traditional models of human teams, humanautomation systems, and multi-agent AI are…
The Anthropology of Machines: A Digital Field Experiment
Artificial intelligence systems have moved far beyond their early roles as narrow instruments of automation. In many knowledge-work and digital collaboration contexts, they now occupy a meaningful—though uneven—position in how humans…
