Human-AI Dualities
This stream examines the tensions that emerge when generative AI enters knowledge work: efficiency and dependency, creativity and skill erosion, collaboration and isolation, ethical empowerment and moral dilemmas.
Research vision
The Existential Human-Centred AI Forum develops a research agenda for understanding how artificial intelligence transforms not only tasks and productivity, but also meaning, agency, responsibility and relational life at work.
Its central concern is not only whether AI systems are efficient, fair or safe. The deeper question is whether humans, leaders and organizations can remain meaning-making, responsible, relational and free when intelligence becomes increasingly automated.
Core research question
How can humans, leaders and organizations preserve meaning, agency, responsibility and relational life in the age of artificial intelligence?
AI-Mediated Co-Existence
This stream explores AI not merely as a tool, but as a relational medium that reshapes how people relate to work, others and themselves.
Ethical Dissonance
This stream studies how people adopt AI under psychological and moral tension, especially when usefulness, necessity, uncertainty and ethical concern coexist.
Existential Appraisal
This stream investigates when AI is experienced as enriching human work and when it is experienced as threatening autonomy, meaning, identity or control.
Meaningful Work and Well-Being
This stream examines how AI affects meaningful work, human flourishing, well-being, strain, burnout and the lived quality of organizational life.
Moral Imagination and Responsibility
This stream connects AI transformation with moral imagination, social entrepreneurship, ethical commitment and responsible action under conditions of uncertainty and crisis.
Integrative thesis
AI transformation should not be evaluated only by productivity, efficiency, automation, adoption, compliance or technical risk.
It should also be evaluated by its effects on human meaning, agency, responsibility, relational life, ethical imagination and the capacity of organizations to sustain dignity-preserving forms of work.
Research-to-practice direction
The long-term aim is to translate this research agenda into practical tools, reflection processes and leadership programmes that help organizations integrate AI without eroding human meaning, autonomy, responsibility and relational life.
Possible future formats include Human Meaning & AI Integration Reflection Sessions, Existential AI Impact Assessments, Existential AI Leadership Labs and Social Enterprise AI Labs.
Public communication principle
The forum communicates broad research directions and conceptual foundations. It does not publish unpublished manuscripts, raw data, interview transcripts, validated scales or restricted research instruments unless publication, ethics and intellectual property conditions are clarified.