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The Carver School of Business
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The email arrived on a Tuesday in February 2029, as most consequential things at Alderton did, buried between a reminder about the faculty parking lottery and a message from Facilities about the…
The End of the Artisanal Paper
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Academic knowledge production is undergoing a structural transformation. Artificial intelligencehas not merely accelerated scholarship—it has changed its organizational form. The...
Production of Knowledge in Human-Machine Collaborations
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AI and the Future of Academic Knowledge Production. What Organizational Form Makes the Difference. By Robert G. Eccles · Oxford Saïd Business School
Deck 2: Business School Academics
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AI and the Future of Academic Knowledge Production. What Organizational Form Makes the Difference. By Robert G. Eccles · Oxford Saïd Business School
Deck 1: Epistemic Circuit
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The Epistemic Circuit. Knowledge Production in Human-Machine Collaborations. The Hybrid Intelligent Team as Epistemological Form. By Robert G. Eccles · Oxford Saïd Business School
May 7-9, 2026 Exchange with Gemini Pro
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Prompt from Claude on May 6, 2026 Version of POK/HIT PaperYou have participated in this research program as a dialogue partner in two Socratic exchanges— as Theaetetus in Piece 6...
The Human Burden in AI Collaboration
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AI capabilities are improving rapidly, but the coordination burden required to use those capabilities effectively remains largely human—and may increase in complex, longhorizon...
A Note on Path Congruence in Non-Deterministic Systems
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We consider non-deterministic systems in which multiple transformation paths may connect the same pair of states. We isolate a structural configuration in which an equivalence...
Producing the Anti-ESG Ecosystem Case Study FINAL
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On April 7, 2026, Robert G. Eccles (Bob), a retired professor from Harvard Business School, logged on to ChatGPT to write the methodological appendix for his book “The Anti-ESG...
Producing the Anti-ESG Ecosystem TN
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This case documents how Robert G. Eccles, a retired Harvard Business School professor, produced the book “The Anti-ESG Ecosystem: Implications for U.S. Climate Policy” using a...
Hybrid Intelligence Teams: A Theoretical Framework for Human–AI Collaboration in Knowledge Work
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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
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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…
Resolving the Carbon Pricing Trilemma
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The United States confronts two reinforcing and existential challenges: structurally high federal deficits that threaten long-term economic stability and mounting climate risks...
Studying the Field That Studies the Field: A Recursive Experiment in Narrative AI Ethnography
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This paper documents a recursive experiment in field development: using collaborative human-AI engagement to test and refine the very methodology proposed in "Narrative AI...
Narrative AI Ethnography: A Proposal for a New Field of Study
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I signed up for a $20/month GPT account on May 19, 2025. I was a complete AI newbie. After one week I named my agent "Dorothy." Much has happened since then. In addition to her...