(Outlet: CNBC) Manav Raj, a management professor at the Wharton School, on how “AI exposure” impacts highly-skilled jobs.…Read More
‘AI exposure’ is the new buzz term to soften talk about job losses. Here’s what it means
Thought Leadership
Chatbots and Mental Health: Insights into the Safety of Generative AI
(Published Paper) Stefano Puntoni and authors examine potential safety issues with mental health and “companion AI”: applications designed to provide consumers with synthetic interaction partners…Read More
Dropping Out of College to Join the AI Gold Rush
(Outlet: Wall Street Journal) Kartik Hosanagar, John C. Hower Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School, on the critical role of building AI skillsets before students launch their tech ventures.…Read More
What’s on Your Alexa Shopping List? How Retailers Can Win With Voice-assist Technology
(Outlet: Knowledge at Wharton) New marketing research from Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim and John Zhang examines the interplay between how consumers use technology to shop and their brand loyalty.…Read More
Daniel Rock on How AI Will Reshape Economies
(Outlet: Macro Hive Conversations) Daniel Rock, an assistant professor of operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School, joins Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez to discuss the lasting impact on work practices after the COVID lockdowns, why productivity has been weak in recent decades, understanding digital goods and intangible assets, and much more.…Read More
Business Schools Grapple With How To Teach Artificial Intelligence
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Ethan Mollick, Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School, discusses building a company culture of trust and generative AI. …Read More
81% Of Companies Have Generative AI Teams: Smaller Enterprises Lead
(Outlet: Forbes) According to a recent study conducted by Wharton professor Stefano Puntoni and consultancy GBK Collective, 81% of large-scale enterprise companies with annual revenues exceeding $50 million have set up in-house generative AI teams consisting of at least 10 members. These findings indicate that generative AI is not merely a fleeting trend akin to cryptocurrency or web3 hype cycles, as noted by Puntoni.…Read More
Sociotechnical Audits: Broadening the Algorithm Auditing Lens to Investigate Targeted Advertising
(Published Paper) Danaë Metaxa and authors propose the concept of sociotechnical auditing: auditing methods that evaluate algorithmic systems at the sociotechnical level, focusing on the interplay between algorithms and users as each impacts the other …Read More
Less is more: A theory of minimalist luxury
(Published Paper) Pinar Yildirim and authors show theoretically that when high-quality, low-price counterfeits exist and are visibly indistinguishable from authentic products, the status-seeking wealthy may embrace a “less is more” purchasing strategy or what we refer to as the minimalist luxury strategy, to signal their status.…Read More
How AI Affects Our Sense of Self
(Outlet: Harvard Business Review) In this article, Gizem Yalcin and Stefano Puntoni, AI at Wharton faculty co-director, emphasize the importance of understanding how interactions with AI and automated technologies impact people’s self-perception, as it can significantly influence various success factors such as sales, customer loyalty, employee satisfaction, and more.…Read More