Workshop: Orchestrating Synthesized Human and AI-Agentic Workflows: AI Agency Benefits, Disruptions and Management

Abstract

For our Special Interest Group (S.I.G.), we propose papers that address the orchestration of teams by synthesizing their workflows into a coherent whole, whether these teams are composed of human, machine, Generative AI (gen-AI), robot or AI-Agentic members. The bigger picture of interdependence, teamwork and Gen-AI indicates the need by organizations to build a library of human and artificial agents with bidirectional agency (responsibility) to achieve operational goals (missions), considering agentic risk tolerances, available skills, and vulnerabilities across a complex trade space among the skills available versus those needed for the tasks assigned to complete an operation. In this trade space, agents (human or artificial) from multiple systems with the requisite skills to accomplish a designated task and timeline combined to form a hierarchy of humans, robots, machines and AI. This complex system produces workflows that must be synthesized into a unit(s), then orchestrated to accomplish the goals assigned to it, yet remain trusted even in competitive and uncertain environments. Once synthesized into a unit (e.g., a team), Gen-AI provides the opportunity to not only advance the science of teams by orchestrating team products and performances, but also has raised several concerns (viz., AI used for deception, superintelligence, blackmail, or existential threats to humans). For our S.I.G., We are interested in orchestrating teams: What are the benefits, drawbacks, and, most importantly, can humans, machines and Agentic AI be synthesized and managed (orchestrated)?