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STE PS_B2: Special Session INSPIRE 2/2 Location: Room U I6 Session Chair: Mona Arhire, Transilvania University of Brașov Session Chair: Cornel Samoila, Transylvania University of Brasov Special Session: Intelligent Systems Promoting Innovation in Research & Education - Consortium for Doctoral Students (INSPIRE) | |
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5:06pm - 5:24pm
The Manager’s Dilemma: Romanian Leaders' Micro-Optimism And Macro-Pessimism Towards An AI-Driven Workforce 1: Doctoral School of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania; 2: Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest Bucharest, Romania; 3: National Institute of Innovations in Cybersecurity “CYBERCOR”, Technical University of Moldova, Moldova; 4: Department of Computers, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania Drawing from in-depth interviews with Romanian entrepreneurs and managers across diverse industries like healthcare, beauty, and agricultural technology, this study uncovers a "Leadership Paradox". Leaders are optimistic about using AI as a tool to amplify their own productivity, but they express deep pessimism about its long-term societal effects, such as the deskilling of future generations and a collective loss of human ambition. The primary barriers to AI adoption are identified not as technological, but as fundamentally human and cultural, including a deep-seated resistance to change and a social stigma that frames AI use as "cheating". The findings also point to a complex workforce "reconfiguration" that threatens skilled but procedural white-collar roles, not just manual labor. | |
