Luca Henkel receives grant for research on real-world impact of AI
Research fellow Luca Henkel, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a $200,000 grant from Schmidt Sciences to conduct field experiments on the real-world impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace.
The grant is part of Schmidt Sciences’ initiative AI at WorkOpens external, which supports research exploring how AI adoption is transforming the nature of work and labour markets more generally.
Henkel’s project investigates how AI-based personalisation can influence the way workers adopt and interact with new AI tools. As companies increasingly integrate AI into daily operations, differences in how employees engage with these systems can lead to disparities in productivity, satisfaction, and inclusion.
By studying how AI tools can be tailored to individual needs and preferences, Henkel’s research aims to identify ways personalisation can improve adoption rates, improve efficiency, and promote greater equality in the workplace. The project also explores how customised AI tools can make recruitment and workplace processes fairer and more inclusive.
To achieve this, Luca Henkel uses randomised field experiments in collaboration with companies, providing causal evidence on how AI integration affects workers and organisations in real-world settings. The ultimate goal is to guide firms and policymakers in designing and regulating advanced AI systems that benefit people and society.
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