BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam//NONSGML v1.0//EN NAME:ABRI Lunch Seminar Omid Omidvar METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260602T120000 DTEND:20260602T130000 DTSTAMP:20260602T120000 UID:2026/abri-lunch-seminar-omid-o@8F96275E-9F55-4B3F-A143-836282E12573 CREATED:20260601T114209 LOCATION:VU Main Building De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam SUMMARY:ABRI Lunch Seminar Omid Omidvar X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

We are happy to invite you to the ABRI Lunch Seminar 'AI agents and temporal patterns: how d o they conduct temporal work?' by Dr. Omid Omidvar (Warwick Business School, UK) organized by ABRI and the KIN Center for Digital Innovati on.


The seminar will take place on Tuesday, June 2nd, from 12:00 to 13:00 (HG-10A41). You can find more information below.

Abstract
Temporal work involves challenging t he assumptions about past, present, and future, and changing and mani pulating temporal patterns. It is predominantly explored through the work conducted by human actors, but in this paper, we examine how AI agents conduct temporal work. We theorize that AI agents conduct temp oral work by reconfiguring temporal horizons and restructuring tempor al patterns. We argue, first, that AI agents shift organizational eng agement with the past from narrative to data-driven reconstruction, r eshaping the future from unknowable to actionable representation. The se changes create “temporal collapse”, our term for the compressi on of temporal distance whereby AI’s data-driven reconstructions of the past increasingly determine its actionable representations of th e future. We then theorize that AI agents change temporal patterns by shifting timing from responsive to anticipatory, sequence from exper ientially grounded to algorithmically decoupled, and rhythm from entr ained to adaptive. These changes result in three distinct modes of te mporal patterning: Determining, Orchestrating, and Orienting. By expl icating how AI agents conduct temporal work through temporal collapse , we contribute to organizational temporality research. We also contr ibute to AI and algorithmic management research by demonstrating the temporal nature of automation-augmentation dichotomy: automation emer ges under complete temporal collapse, while augmentation emerges unde r minimal collapse.
 

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The seminar will take place on Tuesday, June 2nd, fro m 12:00 to 13:00 (HG-10A41). You can find more information below.

Abstract
Temporal work involves challenging the assumptions about past, present, and future, and changing and man ipulating temporal patterns. It is predominantly explored through the work conducted by human actors, but in this paper, we examine how AI agents conduct temporal work. We theorize that AI agents conduct tem poral work by reconfiguring temporal horizons and restructuring tempo ral patterns. We argue, first, that AI agents shift organizational en gagement with the past from narrative to data-driven reconstruction, reshaping the future from unknowable to actionable representation. Th ese changes create “temporal collapse”, our term for the compress ion of temporal distance whereby AI’s data-driven reconstructions o f the past increasingly determine its actionable representations of t he future. We then theorize that AI agents change temporal patterns b y shifting timing from responsive to anticipatory, sequence from expe rientially grounded to algorithmically decoupled, and rhythm from ent rained to adaptive. These changes result in three distinct modes of t emporal patterning: Determining, Orchestrating, and Orienting. By exp licating how AI agents conduct temporal work through temporal collaps e, we contribute to organizational temporality research. We also cont ribute to AI and algorithmic management research by demonstrating the temporal nature of automation-augmentation dichotomy: automation eme rges under complete temporal collapse, while augmentation emerges und er minimal collapse.
  We are happy to invite you to the ABRI Lunch Seminar 'AI agents and temporal patterns: how do they conduct temporal work?' by Dr. Omid Omidvar (Warwick Business School, UK) org anized by ABRI and the KIN Center for Digital Innovation. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR