AI As Co-Worker? Shared Agency and the Dynamics of Collaboration

Professor Matt Jones

Information Technology

A small, futuristic white robot with digital blue eyes walks through a modern, open-plan office alongside four colleagues who are smiling and conversing

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Date: Tuesday, 20 Apr 2027

Time: 18:00

Type: Lecture

Location: Holborn

Venue: Barnard's Inn Hall

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Technology Society Business

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You and AI: Intimacy, Agency, and the Roles

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Collaboration involves shared goals, turn-taking and repair after breakdown. Drawing on coordination science, we examine how humans and AI work together in high-risk and everyday settings. Effective partnership depends less on computational scale than on alignment and trust; we ask how shared agency can be designed without dissolving accountability.

Professor Matt Jones

IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology

Matt Jones is a computer scientist at Swansea University - and a Fellow of the British Computer Society - who works alongside colleagues from many...

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