How does AI impact our communication and teamwork? Let’s ask the experts.
Welcome to the kick-off episode for our 8th series with Our Lives With Bots! In this series, Rose and Angy each bring a recent research study to discuss. Although both papers revolve around the same human-AI interaction subtopic (today: human-AI teams and collaboration), we don’t know what each other’s study does or what it tells us.Listen in real time to hear our reactions, responses, and questions. Our critical take on these research studies comes from our expertise in psychology, business, and AI. We hope you leave this episode knowing more about how to read research papers, understand their methods, uncover what they found, and make your own inferences about whether these research insights translate to the real world — or not.The two research papers we discuss today are provided in the links below.00:00:39 An overview of the two research studies00:02:30 How AI impacts our political discussions with other people00:22:19 How AI impacts teamwork and creativity00:55:28 A reflection on these studies, our own use of AI, and whether using AI for this episode would have improved our work or limited our expertise-This is Our Lives With Bots, the show where we ask important, timely questions about what it means to live with our bot counterparts. From time to time, we also dive deep into what an AI future might look like for us. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we spiral, but we always go deep.Rose and Angy are psychologists with degrees in psychology, artificial intelligence, and ethics. They have conducted research in human-AI interaction and created this podcast to make information about AI accessible to you. Rose holds a PhD in psychology and social policy and is a postdoctoral researcher in computer science with Arvind Narayanan. Angy holds a PhD in psychology and a masters in AI Ethics and is currently a CXO. You can learn more about us at ourliveswithbots.com.-Links:Rose’s study: Li, H., Qian, C., Usman, B., Chan, S., Bakker, M., Rajendran, S., Sud, A., Leung, T., Hariri, N., Canny, J., Dufour, N., & Revel, M. (2026). Improving Group Deliberation through AI-Guided Self-Reflection (arXiv:2610.37862; Version 1). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.37862Angy’s study: Dell’Acqua, F., Ayoubi, C., Lifshitz, H., Sadun, R., Mollick, E., Mollick, L., Han, Y., Goldman, J., Nair, H., Taub, S., & Lakhani, K. R. (2026). The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork. Organization Science, 37(4), 1217–1242. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2025.20702