What AI Agents Carry into the Loop: Network Positions of Production and the Reconfiguration of Epistemic Cultures
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Toronto · accepted · October 2026
Panel: Imaginaries of AI in Collaboration: Expertise and Authority in AI-Mediated Scientific Practice — a 20-minute paper talk on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
In plain terms: an AI agent is built somewhere in particular, carries the marks of that place into whatever work it joins, and arrives without the community of practice that made it — so which AI enters a collaboration helps decide what the collaboration becomes.
Nonhuman Attentional Control: Organizational Import of External Institutional Logics
Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2026, OMT Division · Academy of Management Proceedings 2026(1) · July–August 2026 · doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2026.18749abstract
Accepted March 2026. Presented as a pre-recorded talk in Session 22935 — the session number is the conference program's, not a citation; the Proceedings DOI above is the citable record.
In plain terms: given the same organizational decisions, five AI models from different institutional origins recommended systematically different courses of action, while each stayed consistent with itself across repeated runs.
The Institutional Origins of AI: Evidence from Large Language Models
SSRN working paper 6749643 · May 2026
Two studies: five frontier-lab models across 25 organizational decision scenarios (3,125 observations), and nine models across six open-ended knowledge-production tasks (162 outputs) — institutional signatures reach into what models treat as evidence and explanation. The paper does not claim that production origin rather than co-varying capability causes the differences; that is what the registered, capability-matched study tests.
This work has evolved into a pre-registered study now underway.
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