Posted by There are two terms that were invented almost 40 years ago: artificial management and artificial leadership. I wrote about the first one a few days ago. The second – artificial leadership – is even more puzzling.
When you type such a phrase into the Web of Science database, these words almost never appear side by side. We have various combinations of these words, e.g. LEADERSHIP IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TIME, LEADERSHIP IN THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ERA, but artificial leadership in the last 6 years is not there… See the graphics above.
Why is it so?
When we see, for example, this article, the concept is well explained:
Lawless, W. F. (2021). Exploring the Interdependence Theory of Complementarity with Case Studies. Autonomous Human-Machine Teams (A-HMTs). Informatics 2021, 8(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8010014
But why isn’t anyone studying whether it is possible to lead an organization with a robotic manager? If you have an answer to this question, please send me an email.