Generative AI technologies hold unprecedented potential in augmenting or even automating work tasks, including in jobs traditionally unaffected by automation. These technologies are changing how jobs are performed and what kind of skills are in demand. They are also creating new work roles and tasks. As organizations develop, experiment with and integrate various AI assistants and chatbots, they face challenges related to change management and navigating the legislative landscape. Welfare services and educational institutions encounter complex dilemmas regarding the use of AI tools, the allocation of responsibility for their functioning and outputs. These technologies may pose new challenges for social policy, potentially accelerating existing and creating new social divisions and hierarchies. However, still little is known about the multifaceted impacts of these technologies on our societies.
Therefore, in this working group, we invite proposals that explore how people, organizations, and public administrations navigate the imagined, anticipated and ongoing changes brought about by generative AIs. We are particularly interested in how perceptions of AI affect trust and inclusion in working life and social security, and the extent to which generative AIs are trusted as tools for transforming traditional ways of working and living as well as provision of public services. We invite abstracts on qualitative, quantitative, and conceptual studies on topics including, but not limited to: * The impact of generative AIs on working lives and perceptions of job security * Public services and social security in the context of generative AIs * Generative AIs, new job demands, and retraining * Generative AIs and social trust * The intersection of AI and other major societal transformation.
Language of session: English.