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Preparing for the next generation of generative AI challenges: Articulating a utopian future of generative AI-enabled Web3 systems - 30 Sep 2024

We hosted a research seminar with Associate Professor Daniel Gozman from the University of Sydney at the House of Innovation.

Paper title and abstract

Preparing for the next generation of generative AI challenges: Articulating a utopian future of generative AI-enabled Web3 systems

Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is increasingly embedded in organizations, presenting a wealth of opportunities alongside significant governance challenges. While we have yet to fully understand such challenges in traditional organizational contexts, a next generation of GAI challenges is swiftly emerging through the increasing integration of GAI with Web3. Such integration captures the automation and workflows that enable autonomous AI decision making, signaling major disruptions to conventional corporate, regulatory, and legal governance regimes. In this study, we engage in prospective theorizing to articulate a utopian future of GAI that accounts for its inevitable co-existence with other disruptive innovations such as Web3. Through two waves of data collection with a variety of industry experts, we outline X anticipated governance challenges and illustrate how such challenges are already notable in the “digital undertows”. Responding to calls in the information systems (IS) literature for pro-active future-oriented investigations, our study provides tangible recommendations for establishing appropriate governance mechanisms that empower bothscholars and practitioners to take a proactive approach in sculpting a utopian vision for a future that anticipates the co-existence of advanced GAI and Web3. Building on these insights, we propose an agenda for future research in this domain.
 

About Daniel Gozman 

Daniel Gozman is the Director of Engaged Research and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School (AUS) and an Honorary Fellow at Henley Business School at the University of Reading (UK). Danny received his PhD from the London School of Economics. He is a member of the LSE’s Outsourcing Unit and a Research Fellow at UCL’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Danny is a Freeman at the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (Livery Company of the City of London). Currently, his work focuses on the intersection between policy, emergent technology (AI, Blockchain/DLT, Cloud ect.) and innovation. He has acted as an academic adviser to international law firms and analyst groups and as an external examiner to higher education institutions. He is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Information Technology and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. Prior to academia, Danny worked for Accenture and Deloitte.

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