The Implications of Artificial Intelligence Feedback for Worker Productivity
Files
Date
2024-01-03
Contributor
Advisor
Department
Instructor
Depositor
Speaker
Researcher
Consultant
Interviewer
Narrator
Transcriber
Annotator
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Volume
Number/Issue
Starting Page
1817
Ending Page
Alternative Title
Abstract
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, many organizations have adopted AI to collect data on worker behavior and provide feedback to workers based on such data (for simplicity, we call such tools as AI supervisors). In this study we explore how workers’ productivity is shaped by AI supervisors. We design and implement a large-scale randomized field experiment to quantify the economic impact of an AI supervisor on sales workers’ productivity and distinguish its effect on work effectiveness vs. work efficiency. Our results show that the AI supervisor positively influenced bottom-ranked sales workers’ productivity but had a negative impact on top-ranked workers’ productivity. We further seek to understand the mechanisms through which AI feedback influenced sales workers: Bottom-ranked workers’ productivity gain was driven by improvement in both selling effectiveness and customer engagement efficiency, whereas top-ranked workers’ productivity loss was largely driven by their reduction in customer engagement efficiency.
Description
Keywords
Technology and Analytics in Emerging Markets (TAEM), ai feedback, ai supervisor, artificial intelligence (ai), randomized field experiment, worker productivity
Citation
Extent
10 pages
Format
Geographic Location
Time Period
Related To
Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Related To (URI)
Table of Contents
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Rights Holder
Local Contexts
Email libraryada-l@lists.hawaii.edu if you need this content in ADA-compliant format.