We are excited to announce that Prof. Monideepa Tarafdar from University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be delivering a seminar on Cognitive primacy in human-LLM partnerships.
Abstract: From AI-based decision making to Gen-AI enabled everyday tasks, algorithms are inexorably becoming partners in humans’ work. My presentation will broadly address how humans can retain cognitive primacy in a world of AI-infused work processes. I will present different problematized contexts of human-LLM interaction and then show why focusing on the human is as essential compensatory approach.
Short Bio: Monideepa Tarafdar is Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor and Public Interest Technology Fellow at Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the AIS. She has held appointments as Visiting Scholar/Professor at MIT Sloan CISR, the London School of Economics, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and has been a Senior Research Fellow at Weizenbaum Internet Institute, Berlin. Her work has been published in:Science, PNAS Nexus, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, Journal of the AIS, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. She is a recipient of best paper awards from the Decision Sciences Institute, INFORMS and the AIS, and is an AIS Fellow. She is listed among the top 2% cited faculty internationally (Stanford-Elsevier 2023, 2024). Her research has been featured in among others, Boston Globe, BBC World News, Chronicle of Higher Education, Economist, Guardian, Hindustan Times, MIT Technology Review, Reuters and Wired.
