WAICI 2026, the second Workshop on AI and the Future of Collaborative Innovation, took place at NYU Stern School of Business (Kaufman Management Center, 44 West 4th Street, New York) on October 1–2, 2026. The 2026 theme was Agents, Productivity, and the Future Workforce.
Day 1 · Thursday, October 1, 2026
9:00 AM
– 3:00 PM
– 3:00 PM
Junior Faculty Consortium (invited participants and mentors only). Participants and papersAbbe-Bogen Faculty Lounge (KMC 11-185) and Cantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
3:00 PM
Arrival and check-in for all attendees. Poster setup begins.Cantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
3:15 PM
– 4:15 PM
– 4:15 PM
Plenary Panel 1: How to think about publication in this brave new world?
Panelists: Ravi Bapna (SCU Leavey), Gordon Burtch (BU Questrom), Olivia Sheng (ASU W. P. Carey)
Moderator: Arun Sundararajan (NYU Stern)Cantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
Panelists: Ravi Bapna (SCU Leavey), Gordon Burtch (BU Questrom), Olivia Sheng (ASU W. P. Carey)
Moderator: Arun Sundararajan (NYU Stern)Cantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
4:30 PM
– 5:15 PM
– 5:15 PM
Plenary Short Presentations (5 minutes each). Presenting authors in bold.
- Latent Communication in Adversarial Negotiation: Structural Alignment, Not Content Transmission
- When Social AI Agents Help or Hurt: Dual Agency and Goal Incongruence in Influencer Platforms
- Opening the Black Box of Human-AI Innovation: Generation, Selection, and the Role of Teams
- Governing Human Judgment for Calibrated Reliance in Human-AI Collaboration: An Assemblage Perspective
- AI Adoption and Productivity in Healthcare
- AI Exposure and Organizational Structure
- The Evolving Teams Behind AI Delegation
- Who Wins When AI Creates? AI Content Agents and the Economics of Creation
5:15 PM
– 6:30 PM
– 6:30 PM
Opening Reception and Poster Session: networking, food, and drinksCantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
Day 2 · Friday, October 2, 2026
8:00 AM
– 9:00 AM
– 9:00 AM
Light BreakfastCantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
8:30 AM
– 8:55 AM
– 8:55 AM
Plenary Short Presentations (5 minutes each)
- Negotiate with AI: SVO, Fairness, and Negotiation Engagement
- GENI: GenAI-Assisted Causal Inference for Latent Content Attributes with Emotional Language in Digital Headlines
- The Impact of AI Companions on Mobility Patterns: Evidence from Character AI
- From Words to Faces: Multimodal Trust Cues and Property Demand in the Sharing Economy
- From Visible Opinions to Strategic Disclosure: AI-Enabled Market Analytics and Higher-Order Beliefs in Digital Investment Platforms
9:00 AM
– 10:15 AM
– 10:15 AM
Plenary Panel 2: The Applied Economist’s Playbook - AI, Markets, and Policy Beyond Academia
Panelists: Anindya Ghose (NYU Stern), Sonia Jaffe (Microsoft), Beibei Li (CMU Heinz)
Moderator: Raveesh Mayya (NYU Stern)Cantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
Panelists: Anindya Ghose (NYU Stern), Sonia Jaffe (Microsoft), Beibei Li (CMU Heinz)
Moderator: Raveesh Mayya (NYU Stern)Cantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
10:15 AM
– 10:30 AM
– 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM
– 11:45 AM
– 11:45 AM
Parallel Sessions I (4th Floor)15 minutes per talk plus 3 minutes of Q&A. Presenting authors in bold.
GenAI and Labor Reorganization · Room 4-80
- 10:30Generative AI and the Reorganization of Labor Demand
- 10:48How Generative AI Reorganizes Knowledge Work
- 11:06Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Skill Development
- 11:24The Impact of Generative AI on Skill Demand
Decision Making with AI · Room 4-90
- 10:30The Prediction Trap: Humans Prefer Algorithms That Predict Well To Algorithms That Perform Well
- 10:48The Democratization Paradox: Evaluating Generative AI's Analytical Competence in Retail Investing
- 11:06The Phantom AI: Expert Decision-Making in AI-Deprived Contexts
- 11:24Metacognitive AI and Peer Information in Collective Decisions
AI Agents in Operations · Room 4-120
- 10:30AI Agents for Inventory Control: Human-LLM-OR Complementarity
- 10:48Scaling the Returns to Automation: Algorithms, Robots and Organizational Learning
- 11:06Designing Theory-Based Agents for Agentic Commerce
- 11:24When LLM Agents Negotiate: Private Information and Dynamic Bargaining in Supply Chains
11:45 AM
– 12:45 PM
– 12:45 PM
LunchCantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
12:45 PM
– 2:00 PM
– 2:00 PM
Plenary Panel 3: Future of AI and Innovation Research
Panelists: Vasant Dhar (NYU Stern), Inbal Yahav (TAU Coller), Ahmed Abbasi (Notre Dame)
Moderator: Gal Oestreicher-Singer (TAU Coller)Cantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
Panelists: Vasant Dhar (NYU Stern), Inbal Yahav (TAU Coller), Ahmed Abbasi (Notre Dame)
Moderator: Gal Oestreicher-Singer (TAU Coller)Cantor Boardroom (11th Floor)
2:00 PM
– 2:15 PM
– 2:15 PM
Break
2:15 PM
– 3:30 PM
– 3:30 PM
Parallel Sessions II (4th Floor)15 minutes per talk plus 3 minutes of Q&A. Presenting authors in bold.
Agents in Online Communities · Room 4-80
- 2:15Do Agents Repair When Challenged -- or Just Reply? Challenge, Repair, and Public Correction in a Deployed Agent Forum
- 2:33Same Structure, Different Trajectories: Community Dissolution on an AI Agent Social Platform
- 2:51Can AI agents improve Online Discourse Quality and Representation?
- 3:09When AI Streamers Build or Break Live Streaming Communities: The Roles of Anthropomorphism, AI Efficacy, and Sense of Community
Gen. and Algorithmic AI in Marketing · Room 4-90
- 2:15Tell Me the Truth: Conjoint Analysis in the LLM Era
- 2:33Algorithm or Creative? A Three-Arm Experimental Design for Decomposing Algorithmic Bias in Platform A/B Tests
- 2:51Judging a Cover by its Book: A Deep Learning Approach for Understanding and Enhancing Media Cover Success
- 3:09Tuning towards Fairness: Conditional Disentangled Image Generation
Signal Integrity under AI · Room 4-120
- 2:15Just Be Human – Cognitive Bias-based Modelling to Distinguish Humans from LLMs
- 2:33Correcting Toward the Wrong Target: LLM-Annotated Regressors Under Noisy Human Benchmarks
- 2:51Signal Compression and Adaptive Questioning in AI-Mediated Interviews
- 3:09Collusion in the Cards: AI Detection and Explanation with LLMs
3:30 PM
– 4:00 PM
– 4:00 PM
Coffee BreakRoom 4-60 (4th Floor)
4:00 PM
– 4:54 PM
– 4:54 PM
Parallel Sessions III (4th Floor)15 minutes per talk plus 3 minutes of Q&A. Presenting authors in bold.
AI and Platform Markets · Room 4-80
- 4:00Generative AI Search on Content Creation Platform: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
- 4:18Two-Sided Effects of Content Cost Restrictions in AI Model Marketplaces: Evidence from Civitai
- 4:36When Search Stops Sending Traffic: The Impact of Google AI Overviews on Organic Traffic Monetization in E-Commerce
Agentic Markets and Restructuring · Room 4-90
- 4:00GenAI for All? Unequal Impacts on Women in STEM Entrepreneurship
- 4:18Breaking AI Collusion with Consumer AI
- 4:36Strategic Response of News Publishers to Generative AI
Productivity and Uneven Gains from AI · Room 4-120
- 4:00When AI Supports Emotionally Demanding Service Work: Experimental Evidence from Customer Service Interactions
- 4:18AI-Augmented Green Jobs and Corporate Climate Performance: Evidence from U.S. Firms and Facilities
- 4:36Meeting Arturito and Robotina: Evidence of Performance-Accessibility Tradeoffs from Robotic Digital Guidance
5:10 PM
– 5:40 PM
– 5:40 PM
Closing Plenary Short Presentations (5 minutes each)
- Generative AI Content Governance and Market Outcomes: Evidence from Food Delivery Platforms
- Beyond Automation: Calibrated Centaur Judgment in Human-AI Evaluation
- When LLMs Hurt More than Help: Understanding Decision Failures Under AI Assistance
- Specialization Trade-Offs in a General-Purpose Technology: The case of Open Foundation Models’ Ecosystems.
- Shielding Without Search: Covert AI Agents and Personalized Pricing on Hybrid Marketplaces
5:40 PM
Closing Remarks