Preparing for the Next Generation of Generative AI Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Gozman, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: 23rd October, 13:00-14:30
Location: Executive Hub Boardroom (WB-4001), Waterside Building
Organiser: University of Durham
Link: Zoom
Event Details
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 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 both scholars 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 the speaker
Daniel Gozman is Associate Professor and Director of Engaged Research at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia, and an Honorary Fellow at Henley Business School at the University of Reading, UK. He has acted as an academic advisor to international law firms, analyst groups, and global technology firms. Dr. Gozman has published in JMIS, EJIS, ISJ, MISQ Executive, JBR, and SBE. He is Senior Editor for JIT and Associate Editor for EJIS, ISJ, and Electronic Commerce and Research Applications. Prior to academia, Dr. Gozman worked for Accenture, Deloitte and various banks providing technical advice. Dr. Gozman holds a first-class honors degree in computer science, a master of science degree with distinction in IS and management, and a PhD in IS and innovation from the London School of Economics.