Stanford HAI Launches AI and Organizations Lab to study Science of AI in Workplace
Stanford HAI Launches AI and Organizations Lab to study Science of AI in Workplace
SHP's Sara Singer will help lead the new center to examine AI's real-world impacts on jobs, teams, and organizational performance.
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) announced the launch of the AI and Organizations Lab, a new research center that will establish an empirical science of how AI transforms workplace coordination and organizational performance.
The lab advances the institute’s mission of human-centered AI by examining how AI impacts jobs, reshapes team dynamics, and influences organizational outcomes. Its goal is to ensure artificial intelligence enhances rather than diminishes human capabilities while generating positive societal impacts.
"The AI+Organizations Lab will inform policy decisions by generating research grounded in real-world practice," said Sara Singer, PhD, MBA, a professor of health policy and medicine at Stanford School of Medicine and professor of organizational behavior, by courtesy, at Stanford GSB—and one of four core faculty members leading the new lab.
"We're at a critical juncture where AI is being deployed across organizations at unprecedented speed, yet we have limited empirical understanding of its actual effects on how people work together," said Melissa Valentine, the lab's director, a HAI senior fellow, and associate professor of management science and engineering at Stanford. "This lab will generate the rigorous, evidence-based research needed to guide organizations toward AI implementations that genuinely augment human potential."
