Would you trust a manager who was a robot? Part 1

Imagine you walk into your boss’s room, and there behind the table sits a human-like robot. However, at first glance you can see that it is not a human, but a machine. Not only is it more powerful than you in terms of physical strength – after all, you won’t be arm-wrestling – but it has learned the project management ways of all the managers in the corporation where you work. You have to ask him to resolve a conflict

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What social processes are present where the artificial manager will work?

In a previous post, I described that when designing an artificial manager, you must realize that his work environment will be very difficult – a social group, and in it people with unmeasurable group identity, interpersonal relationships, persuasion skills and so on. What social processes dominate the social group in business that an artificial manager must participate in? To answer this question, let’s answer the question “what do the individuals of this collectivity”, that is, the participants of the organization,

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Where will the artificial manager work?

Have you ever wondered where the artificial manager will work? Will it be a production hall, a factory full of machines and robots, or perhaps a group of people? Of course, you can imagine that the artificial manager manages other robots. However, that would be too simple. Devices working with devices is not a challenge that could change the world. So where will the artificial manager’s place of work be? Among humans. That’s why it’s worth understanding how complex and

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Should a robot manager look like Sophia?

Have you ever been on a date with a robot? I have been, or at least in a few cases I thought so. In the days of Tinder, you can meet people who can associate with a robot made by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, regardless of gender. The robot was the first to become a citizen of Saudi Arabia in October 2017, becoming the first robot to receive citizenship of any country. Sophia is endowed with artificial intelligence, can adapt

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HAL 9000 – how to win against the robot that is your boss?

Do you remember the computer that rebelled against humanity when it sent its spaceship Discovery One towards Jupiter to investigate the source of a strange signal related to the Monolith? I’m writing, of course, about the HAL 9000 computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, where the main character David Bowman, as the sole survivor of the ship’s crew, must defeat the rebellious machine-manager. How did this happen? Invented a few years earlier, a supercomputer

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