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Kai Yao

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Review Open access Sep 2026

More flow and less objectification: Dual influence mechanisms of generative AI use on employees’ proactive behaviors

Technological innovations represented by generative artificial intelligence (GAI) are disrupting existing work modalities, leaving academia in urgent need of empirical research regarding how GAI usage shapes employee cognition and behavior. Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), this study constructs a dual-pathw...

Shu-Hui Xu, Ying-Qing Mei, Kai Yao et al. · BMC Psychology · 0 citations

#generative ai Jul 2026

When AI Does the Work, What Is Learning For? Post-Instrumental Learning and the Risk of Capacity Dissolution

As AI systems become capable of producing the essays, code, reports, summaries, plans, and decisions through which institutions usually recognize competence, a familiar question becomes harder to answer: what is learning for? Existing AI ethics rightly emphasizes present failures--bias, opacity, hallucination, labor ex...

Kai Yao · arXiv.org · 0 citations