Aug 2026· Journal of Business Anthropology· Vol 15, pp. 20-30· 1 citation· 14 references
TL;DR
This essay argues that the prevailing tendency to anthropomorphize AI fundamentally misrepresents the capabilities and limitations of these tools, and gives short shrift to the human qualities that drive innovation, judgment, and connection in the workplace.
Abstract
The accelerating integration of Artificial Intelligence into organizational life is prompting a critical reckoning with how we conceptualize, deploy, and coexist with these technologies. In this essay, I argue that the prevailing tendency to anthropomorphize AI fundamentally misrepresents the capabilities and limitations of these tools, and gives short shrift to the human qualities that drive innovation, judgment, and connection in the workplace. Business anthropologists have a crucial role in shaping how to best integrate these powerful amplification tools with human cognition. As tools evolve, the boundaries will undoubtedly shift, necessitating our expertise to help navigate the front lines of human and machine interplay, and to remind business leaders of the ongoing need to nourish and invest in people as well as technology in order to address complex organizational challenges.
It is argued that AI is no longer merely a computational instrument, but increasingly functions as a structural mediator shaping human consciousness through the reconstruction of global information architecture, and the future trajectory of civilization will be determined not merely by control over energy and material...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have
revolutionised the interaction between humans, knowledge and technology. What
once needed years of formal education, years of institutional access or specialist's
help is now obtained, translated, explained, reorganised in seconds. This
un...
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It is argued that it is the responsibility of instructional communication scholars, communication education teachers, and communication pedagogy experts to discover strategies for harnessing generative AI's power to manage the potential threats posed by it and extend communication theory and research in ways that may u...
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Veteran educator Jo Renee Formicola argues that if higher education is to survive the challenge of artificial intelligence then administrators, staff, faculty, and students have little choice but to cautiously adapt by merging traditional pedagogy with innovative digital tools.
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