Field Notes — Ali Safari — 345 notes

Field
Notes.

Honest reactions to IS research, AI, and the theory I'm studying for comps. No summaries.

345 Posts
10 Topics
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AI Augmentation vs. AI Automation: Getting the Frame Right
2026-05-14·Technology Adoption
7 min read
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AI Chatbots Are the Richest Medium That Has Never Existed
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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Copilot Generated More Code and More Bugs
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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When AI Is a Colleague, Not a Tool: Structuration in the Agent Era
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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The 2029 Customer Service Prediction Requires Solving Non-AI Problems
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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AI's Energy Problem Is a Sociotechnical Systems Problem
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
5 min read
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AI Ethics Boards That Never Blocked a Project
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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AI and the Future of Work: What the Automation Timeline Really Says
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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AI Adopted the Way the Garbage Can Model Predicts
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
70
AI Hallucination Is a Trust Problem, Not a Technical One
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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Why Doctors Still Resist Better AI: Identity, Not Accuracy
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
72
The Gap Between Fair Metrics and Fair Experience (Amazon's AI Hiring Edition)
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
73
AI Implementation Failures Are Sociotechnical, Not Technical
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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AI and the Labor Market: What IS Research Can Contribute
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
75
AI Layoffs Create Budget Room But Not Returns
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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Critical Realism Explains Why AI Models Are Not the Mechanisms They Simulate
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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Tiny Teams, Big Questions: What Happens When AI Writes the Code
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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AI Has The Strongest Network Effects Ever, And That Is a Problem
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
5 min read
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We Learn to Use AI by Watching Others, and That Is Why Adoption Is Uneven
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
6 min read
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AI Output Is a Boundary Object. That Is Why It Is So Hard to Govern.
2026-05-14·AI & Agentic Systems
5 min read
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