Reframing Climate Engagement
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Authors’ Note: This post is a follow on to our recent Substack post A Climate Plan Engineered to Actually Pass Congress. The list of companies at the end of...
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…