Capturing a moving target: Developing research on and with AI for Human Relations

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Human Relations Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI:10.1177/00187267251332075

Jakob Stollberger, Smriti Anand, Penny Dick

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Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part and parcel of scientific knowledge production since the latest iterations of generative AI models (e.g., ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, or Gemini) became widely available. Given AI has rapidly evolved since the initial release of ChatGPT in 2022, researching how AI’s capabilities impact organizations and how researchers make use of AI tools can be likened to a moving target. In this editorial essay, we explore the implications of the introduction of AI in the context of academic research, both as the subject of investigation (i.e., research on AI) and as a research tool to facilitate academic writing, data generation, or the peer review process (i.e., research with AI). Specifically, concerning research on AI, we consider issues around clarity regarding both existing definitions and concepts in the AI literature and how these are influenced by the rapid technological evolution of AI’s capabilities. In regard to research with AI, we reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of the use of AI as a research tool and discuss the Human Relations AI Usage Policy . Overall, our aim is not to be overly prescriptive on how to conduct research on and with AI but to encourage authors to reflect on how to best capture AI as a moving target in the context of their research endeavors.

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捕捉移动目标：发展人工智能在人际关系方面的研究

自从最新迭代的生成式人工智能模型（如 ChatGPT、DeepSeek、Claude 或 Gemini）广泛应用以来，人工智能（AI）已成为科学知识生产的重要组成部分。鉴于自 ChatGPT 于 2022 年首次发布以来，人工智能发展迅速，研究人工智能的能力如何影响组织以及研究人员如何利用人工智能工具可以说是一个移动的目标。在这篇社论文章中，我们将探讨在学术研究背景下引入人工智能的影响，既包括作为研究对象（即关于人工智能的研究）的人工智能，也包括作为促进学术写作、数据生成或同行评审过程的研究工具（即使用人工智能的研究）的人工智能。具体来说，关于人工智能研究，我们会考虑人工智能文献中现有定义和概念的清晰度问题，以及这些定义和概念如何受到人工智能能力快速技术演进的影响。在人工智能研究方面，我们思考了使用人工智能作为研究工具的利弊，并讨论了 "人际关系人工智能使用政策"。总之，我们的目的不是对如何开展人工智能研究和使用人工智能进行过多的规定，而是鼓励作者思考如何在其研究工作中将人工智能作为一个移动目标进行最佳捕捉。

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Human Relations Multiple-

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12.60

自引率

7.00%

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期刊介绍： Human Relations is an international peer reviewed journal, which publishes the highest quality original research to advance our understanding of social relationships at and around work through theoretical development and empirical investigation. Scope Human Relations seeks high quality research papers that extend our knowledge of social relationships at work and organizational forms, practices and processes that affect the nature, structure and conditions of work and work organizations. Human Relations welcomes manuscripts that seek to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to develop new perspectives and insights into social relationships and relationships between people and organizations. Human Relations encourages strong empirical contributions that develop and extend theory as well as more conceptual papers that integrate, critique and expand existing theory. Human Relations welcomes critical reviews and essays: - Critical reviews advance a field through new theory, new methods, a novel synthesis of extant evidence, or a combination of two or three of these elements. Reviews that identify new research questions and that make links between management and organizations and the wider social sciences are particularly welcome. Surveys or overviews of a field are unlikely to meet these criteria. - Critical essays address contemporary scholarly issues and debates within the journal''s scope. They are more controversial than conventional papers or reviews, and can be shorter. They argue a point of view, but must meet standards of academic rigour. Anyone with an idea for a critical essay is particularly encouraged to discuss it at an early stage with the Editor-in-Chief. Human Relations encourages research that relates social theory to social practice and translates knowledge about human relations into prospects for social action and policy-making that aims to improve working lives.