Participants envisioned switchable AI roles — strategic advisor, cross-domain translator, and perspective challenger — whose expansion destabilized perceived neutrality and raised authority and accountability concerns¶

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Evidence · 2 studies · 2 qualitative r3 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Participants envisioned three future AI roles: a strategic advisor supporting decision evaluation, a cross-domain translator making disciplinary knowledge accessible, and a perspective challenger introducing viewpoints unlikely to emerge within the team. → roles-1 q2 i? As AI moved from organizing perspectives toward influencing collective judgment, the detachment supporting its perceived neutrality also weakened the authority needed to shape the team's decision. → roles-2

Evidence¶

roles-1¶

Ching-Jung Cheng, Yu-Chan Chung, Bing-Chen Chiu, Yu-Hsuan Lin, and Jia-Wei Liao. 2026. Exploring AI-Supported Disciplinary Mediation in Student Project Teams' Text-Based Communication: A Probe-Grounded Co-Design Study. OzCHI '26. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07503 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.07503

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Co-design workshop finding with 12 students: these were "desired future functions rather than capabilities evaluated through Spritz"; participants imagined a "smart staff officer" and a "virtual investor" role. Descriptive; no effect size printed.

"Building on the probe experience, participants envisioned three future AI roles: a strategic advisor supporting decision evaluation, a cross-domain translator making disciplinary knowledge accessible, and a perspective challenger introducing viewpoints unlikely to emerge within the team."

roles-2¶

Ching-Jung Cheng, Yu-Chan Chung, Bing-Chen Chiu, Yu-Hsuan Lin, and Jia-Wei Liao. 2026. Exploring AI-Supported Disciplinary Mediation in Student Project Teams' Text-Based Communication: A Probe-Grounded Co-Design Study. OzCHI '26. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07503

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Thematic-analysis finding on role expansion: participants questioned the legitimacy of AI advice because, as one stated, AI "does not have the ability to take responsibility for what it says"; during deadlock members could dismiss an AI judgment. Descriptive; no effect size printed.

"As AI moved from organizing perspectives toward influencing collective judgment, the detachment that supported its perceived neutrality also weakened the authority needed to shape the team’s decision."

Discussion¶

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