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We are happy to invi te you to the ABRI Lunch Seminar 'AI agents and temporal patterns: ho w do they conduct temporal work?' by Dr. Omid Omidvar (Warwick Busine ss School, UK) organized by ABRI and the KIN Center for Digital Innov ation.


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

Abstract
Temporal work involves challen ging the assumptions about past, present, and future, and changing an d manipulating temporal patterns. It is predominantly explored throug h the work conducted by human actors, but in this paper, we examine h ow AI agents conduct temporal work. We theorize that AI agents conduc t temporal work by reconfiguring temporal horizons and restructuring temporal patterns. We argue, first, that AI agents shift organization al engagement with the past from narrative to data-driven reconstruct ion, reshaping the future from unknowable to actionable representatio n. These changes create “temporal collapse”, our term for the com pression of temporal distance whereby AI’s data-driven reconstructi ons of the past increasingly determine its actionable representations of the future. We then theorize that AI agents change temporal patte rns by shifting timing from responsive to anticipatory, sequence from experientially grounded to algorithmically decoupled, and rhythm fro m entrained to adaptive. These changes result in three distinct modes of temporal patterning: Determining, Orchestrating, and Orienting. B y explicating how AI agents conduct temporal work through temporal co llapse, we contribute to organizational temporality research. We also contribute to AI and algorithmic management research by demonstratin g the temporal nature of automation-augmentation dichotomy: automatio n emerges under complete temporal collapse, while augmentation emerge s under minimal collapse.
 

DESCRIPTION: 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) organized by ABRI and the KIN Center for Digital Innovation.
The seminar will take plac e on Tuesday, June 2nd, from 12:00 to 13:00 (HG-10A41). You can find more information below.

Abstract
Temporal work involves challenging the assumptions about past, present, and fu ture, and changing and manipulating temporal patterns. It is predomin antly explored through the work conducted by human actors, but in thi s paper, we examine how AI agents conduct temporal work. We theorize that AI agents conduct temporal work by reconfiguring temporal horizo ns and restructuring temporal patterns. We argue, first, that AI agen ts shift organizational engagement with the past from narrative to da ta-driven reconstruction, reshaping the future from unknowable to act ionable representation. These changes create “temporal collapse”, our term for the compression of temporal distance whereby AI’s dat a-driven reconstructions of the past increasingly determine its actio nable representations of the future. We then theorize that AI agents change temporal patterns by shifting timing from responsive to antici patory, sequence from experientially grounded to algorithmically deco upled, and rhythm from entrained to adaptive. These changes result in three distinct modes of temporal patterning: Determining, Orchestrat ing, and Orienting. By explicating how AI agents conduct temporal wor k through temporal collapse, we contribute to organizational temporal ity research. We also contribute to AI and algorithmic management res earch by demonstrating the temporal nature of automation-augmentation dichotomy: automation emerges under complete temporal collapse, whil e augmentation emerges under minimal collapse.
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