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Robot Talk Episode 93 – Robots and AI in the workplace, with Matt Beane


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11 October 2024



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Claire chatted to Matt Beane from the University of California, Santa Barbara about how humans can learn to work with intelligent machines.

Matt Beane conducts field research on robots and AI in the workplace, focusing on positive exceptions applicable to the broader world of work. He has published his award-winning research in top management journals and presented on the TED stage. He’s been recognized as a Human-Robot Interaction Pioneer and named to the Thinkers50 Radar list. Matt is an assistant professor in the Technology Management department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Digital Fellow with Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.




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