W4408722803 Working papers AI × management and organizations

The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise

Fabrizio Dell'Acqua · Charles Ayoubi · Hila Lifshitz-Assaf · Raffaella Sadun · Ethan R. Mollick · Lilach Mollick · Yi Han · Jeff Goldman · Hari Nair · Stew Taub · Karim R. Lakhani

Also recorded as: Harvard Business School Working Paper 25-043 · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5188231 · ssrn:5188231

ssrn abstract page · 2025-03-21

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A preregistered field experiment randomized 776 Procter & Gamble professionals across AI/no-AI and individual/pair arrangements on product-innovation challenges; this posting reports that individuals with AI performed comparably to human teams without AI, produced solutions less differentiated by R&D versus commercial background, and reported more positive emotions.

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Scope: Universe and denominator: 776 professionals at one consumer-goods company overall; unit: professional or pair and product-development output; period: not displayed; condition and team counts are not displayed.

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  • Condition allocation, effect sizes, task count, study period, statistical details, and emotion measures are not displayed; comparable performance may not mean a formal equivalence test, and the teammate interpretation is inferential.
  • This 56-page HBS/Wharton/ESSEC posting says there are two versions. SSRN 5207588 presents the same title and abstract as a distinct 54-page NBER posting with different dates, series, access presentation, and Hila Lifshitz name form; the lane preserves rather than resolves that posting/version conflict.

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