AI and Organizations Lab

Why It Matters

The initiative could shape how firms integrate AI at scale, reducing costly failures by providing evidence-based practices, simulations, and industry-informed research. Its outcomes may influence workforce design, competitive advantage, and regulatory or ethical standards across sectors.

Summary

The AI and Organizations Lab aims to produce grounded research and practical playbooks to guide how organizations adapt to AI over the next five years, training scholars to help industry implement change. Leaders envision studying how AI reshapes work, knowledge, and organizational design—potentially simulating entire organizations to test changes before deployment. The lab will collaborate closely with industry partners to co‑design problems and solutions, emphasizing systematic, context-aware adoption rather than simply inserting AI tools. Organizers stress both the vast innovation potential of AI as a general-purpose technology and the risks to social outcomes, with a focus on preserving human dignity in hybrid human-AI organizations.

Original Description

Hear from Stanford HAI Senior Fellow Melissa Valentine and founding affiliate faculty about their goals for the AI and Organizations Lab. Learn about the research agenda, its importance to scholarship and practice, and the role industry collaborators can play to bring it to life.