Wharton Human-AI Research presents the
3rd Annual Business & Generative AI Conference
sponsored by
Thursday, September 4th
Program is subject to change.
Registration Check-in / Light Breakfast
Dining Hall
Keynote: Lan Guan, Chief AI Officer, Accenture
Room 660
Break
Session 1-A: Misinformation and Trust
Room 612
Behnaz Bojd, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine. Information-Seeking from AI Chatbots: Tradeoff between Judgment and Misinformation Concerns under Stigma
Dokyun (DK) Lee, Associate Professor in IS & Computing and Data Science, Boston University
Heeseung Andrew Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas. Breaking News and Filter Bubbles: Generative AI Search and the Future of News Consumption
Gavin Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas. Large Language Models Polarize Ideologically but Moderate Affectively in Online Political Discourse
Session 1-B: AI Pricing and Economics
Room 615
Hemant Bhargava, Distinguished Professor, UC Davis; Director, Center for Analytics and Technology in Society. AI Pricing: The Value-Revenue Paradox
Amit Mehra, Professor, Information Systems, University of Texas at Dallas. The Economics of Fine-Tuning: Pricing and Regulation for AI Supply Chain
Luyang Zhang, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University. Fairshare Data Pricing via Data Valuation for Large Language Models
Break
Session 2-A: Music and Creative Industries
Room 612
Yunfei Wang, PhD Candidate, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Authenticity in the Age of AI Music: The Effect of GPT-4 on Digital Music Consumption
Benedikt Roder, Doctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich. Music Marketing with Generative AI
Ruben R. Salas, PhD Student, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Beyond Fluency: A Process-Centric Analysis of Human–AI Collaboration in Creative Industries
Session 2-B: Workplace Adoption of GenAI
Room 615
Gregor Schubert, Assistant Professor of Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management. Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Kiran Tomlinson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research. Measuring the Impact of Generative AI on Work Activities and Occupations
Haonan Yin, PhD Candidate, University of California – Irvine. Exposure, Readiness, and Firm Valuation of Generative AI
Lunch & Networking
Dining Hall
Session 3-A: GenAI in Education
Room 612
Noah Castelo, Associate Professor, University of Alberta. AI Assistance Can Decrease Motivation to Improve Cognitive Skills
Raveesh Mayya, Assistant Professor of Technology, NYU Stern School of Business. Mitigating Spoken Language Barriers in AI-Assisted Programming: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Alp Sungu, Assistant Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Can Generative AI Harm Teaching?
Session 3-B: Insights in GenAI
Room 615
Leonard Boussioux, Assistant Professor, University of Washington (Foster); Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. Narrative AI and the Human-AI Oversight Paradox in High-Stakes Evaluation
Andrea Contigiani, Assistant Professor, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. Experimentation in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence from ChatGPT
Xueming Luo, Founder/Director, Global Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics, Fox School of Business, Temple University. Designing AI-Human Supervision to Improve Worker Performance and Reduce Gender Gap
Break
Session 4-A: Consumer Well-Being
Room 612
Anouk Bergner, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva. Managing Online Toxicity: How AI-Enabled Empathic Support Transforms Consumer Coping Behaviors
Nazli Bhatia, Associate Practice Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Pennsylvania. Comparative Accuracy of LLMs and Human Negotiators in Predicting Partner Satisfaction
Darima Fotheringham, Assistant Professor, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University. More Than Just a Coach: The Psychological Limits of AI in Driving Consumer Performance
Fangchen Song, PhD Student, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. Can AI Make Us Happier? A Randomized Experiment on AI’s Emotional Impact
Session 4-B: AI Agents and Training
Room 615
Amit Dhanda, Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon. Multi-Dimensional Summarization Agents with Context-Aware Reasoning over Enterprise Tables
Yi Gao, Assistant Professor, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University. When Data Can’t Flow Upstream: Implications of Restricting API Data for Model Training
Goodman Gu, Director of AI, Adobe Inc. AKAP: A Multi-Agent Framework for Enterprise Strategic Knowledge Asset Management
Wei Lu, Assistant Professor of Marketing, CUNY Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business. Aligning Large Language Model Agents with Rational and Moral Preferences: A Supervised Fine-Tuning Approach
Poster Session
Networking Reception
Dining Hall
Friday, September 5th
Light Breakfast
Dining Hall
Keynote: Jon Jones, Vice President of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Startups and Venture Capital
Room 660
Break
Session 5-A: AI Engagement
Room 612
Wajeeha Ahmad, Graduate Researcher, Stanford University. What Content Grows User Contributions on Platforms? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Manuel Hoffmann, Assistant Professor, University of Irvine, California. The Generative AI – Gender Puzzle
YoungJin Kwon, PhD Student, University of Minnesota. Large Language Models in Academia: Boosting Productivity or Deepening the Gap?
Session 5-B: Domain-Specific AI Applications
Room 615
Xiyang Hu, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University. DrugAgent: Automating AI-aided Drug Discovery Programming through LLM Multi-Agent Collaboration
Sakshi Korde, PhD Candidate, Wilfrid Laurier University. Understanding effects of LLM information framing: The Impact of Persona-based Framing on Persuasive Effectiveness
Canberk Ucel, Assistant Professor, ESSEC Business School. Improving Farm Productivity and Technology Adoption Through LLM-Powered Digital Advisory: A Randomized Controlled Trial Among 2,000 Smallholder Rice Farmers
Break
Session 6-A: Recruitment and Hiring
Room 612
Ada Aka, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Better Together: Quantifying the Benefits of Human-AI Collaboration in Recruitment
Rachit Kamdar, PhD Candidate, R. H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Modeling the Interviewer: Leveraging LLMs to Uncover Personality Mismatch Effects in Interview Assessment
Jiannan Xu, PhD Candidate, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
Session 6-B: Digital Twins
Room 615
He Sun, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale School of Management. A Digital Twin for Mall Consumer Behavior: Generative Modeling of Shopper Trajectories from Mall Foot-Traffic Data
Shane Wang, Professor of Marketing, Virginia Tech. Predicting Behaviors with Large Language Model (LLM)-Powered Digital Twins of Customers
Kan Xu, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business. Learning User Engagement using Deep Matching Embeddings
Lunch & Networking
Dining Hall
Session 7-A: Economic Impacts
Room 612
Jiasun Li, Robert Johnston Endowed Professorship and Associate Professor of Finance, George Mason University. Will Generative AI Replace Human Creatives? Insights from Financial Economics
Pearl (Peiyan) Yu, Assistant Professor, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. The Impact of Generative AI on Freelancer Job Preferences and Bidding Behaviors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Zhe Yuan, Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University. Where and How Generative AI Boosts Firm Productivity: Field Experiments in Online Retail
Session 7-B: LLM Learning
Room 615
J. Frank Li, Assistant Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business. What Can Robots Do? Using Large Language Models to Understand How Embodied Computation May Affect Occupations and the Economy
João Sedoc, Assistant Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University. To Err Is Human; To Annotate, SILICON? Reducing Measurement Error in LLM Annotation
Shai Vardi, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida. Fragile Preferences: A Deep Dive into Order Effects in Large Language Models
Break
Session 8-A: AI for Consumer Insights
Room 612
Sophia Kazinnik, Research Scientist, Stanford (Digital Economy Lab @ HAI). Augmenting Human Survey Responses with Generative AI: An Application to Economic Research
Artem Timoshenko, Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management. GenAI for Identifying Customer Needs
Shubin Yu, Associate Professor of Marketing, HEC Paris. Step Further Towards Automated Consumer Research: Developing and Validating an AI-Powered Interview Platform
Session 8-B: Management of AI Agents
Room 615
Ravi Bapna, Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Agentic AI and Managers’ Analytics Capabilities: An Exploration
Zhaoqi Cheng, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Mario Leccese, Assistant Professor, Boston University. Navigating the Frontier of Artificial Intelligence via Agentic Taxonomy Induction
Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Managing the Machine: Does Organization Theory Matter When Managing AI Agents?
Break
Plenary Session
Room 660
Alok Gupta, Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Roles of AI in Collaboration with Humans: Automation, Augmentation and the Future of Work
Michael G. Jacobides, Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Strategy, London Business School. How Disruptive Will Generative AI Be? A Micro-Level Analysis of Evidence and Expectations
Anjana Susarla, Omura Saxena Professor of Responsible AI, Michigan State University. Do Large Language Models’ (LLMs) Generative Capabilities Boost Creativity? Assessing AI-Augmented Creativity with LLMs