Arvind Karunakaran
Management scholar, Stanford University
Signed the letter · Academia · United States
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, with core faculty roles at Stanford's Center for Work, Technology, and Organization and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management (2018); previously on the faculty of McGill University. Author of research on technology, work, and organizations, including 'Artificial Intelligence at Work: An Integrative Perspective on the Impact of AI on Workplace Inequality' and 'The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy'. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.
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17 works in the co-authorship map · 481 citations across them
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In the network
3 co-authors on the map · PageRank #133 of 400 · bridge #198 of 400 · 3 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: AI and expertise at work.
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Documented positions
Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown
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Will AI widen inequality? leans agree
His co-authored 2025 review of research on AI and workplace inequality proposes an 'inequality cascade' in which choices in AI design, implementation and use can amplify encoded, evaluative, wage and relational inequality, and discusses mechanisms to mitigate it.
Evidence
- Artificial Intelligence at Work: An Integrative Perspective on the Impact of AI on Workplace Inequality
- “Choices made during model design, implementation, or use and adaptation can ripple out to exacerbate or reduce workplace inequality.” — source
Should governments act on AI now? unknown
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How fast will the impact arrive? unknown
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Selected work
- Artificial Intelligence at Work: An Integrative Perspective on the Impact of AI on Workplace Inequality
- The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy
- Taming Platform Power: Taking Accountability into Account in the Management of Platforms
Writes with
Hatim Rahman (3), Luca Vendraminelli (2), Mathijs de Vaan (1)
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