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I-X Research Presentations: Susan Scott

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Time: 15.30-16.30
Date: Thursday, 10 April
Location: Hybrid | MS Teams & I-X Conference Room (Level 5)
Translation and Innovation Hub (I-HUB)
Imperial White City Campus
84 Wood Lane
London W12 0BZ

15:30 - 16:30
10/04/2025
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Speaker

Susan Scott

Susan Scott is Professor of Management and Artificial Intelligence, a joint appointment with the Business School and I-X. Her research area is the digital reconfiguration of work; digital displacements; online valuation and accountability; sociomaterial practices of organising; and digital responsibility. Her research has been published in Organization Science, Research Policy, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Academy of Management Annals.

Talk Title

Exploring AI-in-the-Making: Genealogies of AI Performativity

Talk Summary

Recent interest in artificial intelligence technologies has led to much discussion about what the age of AI portends for how we live and work. And specifically for the present discussion, what it means for agency. In offering our contributions to these considerations, we build on approaches to treat AI not as a “thing” but as phenomena in-the-making. Such a framing orients us to doings, to practices, to enactments, and consequential outcomes. These considerations of AI-in-the-making are inspired by sociomateriality, a theoretical approach that calls attention to performativity and accountability. Based on these ideas, we propose a sociomaterial genealogical approach that we suggest is well-suited for the study of AI-in-the-making. In so doing, we provide qualitative scholars with a way of orienting their inquiries toward the performativity of ongoing AI reconfigurations and sociomaterial accountabilities. 

This event will be hosted both in-person and online. The link to the online meeting will be provided upon the registration. 

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