Regarding my research, specifically, I consider AI’s autonomous decision-making capabilities to be even more integral to administrative organizations today than half a century ago, as underscored by Herbert Simon. I view humans and AI as distinct decision-making systems, as also noted by Simon, co-working within the realm of information processing to operate government services and programs, generating public results. I am dedicated to investigating how these decisional networks, with mutual influences, can impact organizational mechanisms and dynamics.

This involves contemplating how traditional administration and management concepts and theories, including but not limited to work motivation, leadership, and responsibility, may or may not apply to human and AI networks in their co-working sphere. In conjunction with this, I explore the interplay of other cognitive psychological, biological-technological, and institutional-organizational factors, which will crucially shape the phases of human-AI decisional interactions. These interactional impacts will influence the extent of administration, including task accomplishments, procedural processing, and vertical and horizontal coordination of organizational operations.

Beyond my published and in-progress works, my active research agenda includes investigating how human and AI networks can transform social rules, norms, and values, thereby affecting individual, collective, and constitutional dynamics of governance. This agenda advances and incorporates my academic learning at the University of Georgia, where I also collaborated with the Department of Management Information Systems. The agenda encompasses two distinct yet complementary approaches that I developed at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and a Cybersecurity Institute program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

I plan to conduct various theory-building and empirical research, including survey/field experiments, in collaboration with researchers and practitioners across the US, the Netherlands, Korea, and Taiwan.