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Unlocking human potential in the AI Age: how employee-AI collaboration transforms work engagement through dual psychological pathways
Originally published 2026-01-28 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1705671 ↗
AI / system type
Employee–AI collaboration among knowledge workers
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Employee–AI collaboration among knowledge workers. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings meaningful work and creative confidence in employee–AI partnerships into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers three-wave time-lagged employee survey evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is meaningful work and creative confidence in employee–AI partnerships. Source setting or population: 516 valid responses from knowledge workers using AI in China. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
What makes working alongside AI feel like meaningful collaboration?
This three-wave time-lagged employee survey examines meaningful work and creative confidence in employee–AI partnerships. Its TRICK home is Collaboration, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
516 valid responses from knowledge workers using AI in China
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- What makes working alongside AI feel like meaningful collaboration?
- What do this study’s design and population — 516 valid responses from knowledge workers using AI in China — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering meaningful work and creative confidence in employee–AI partnerships, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Longitudinal survey associations do not establish that collaboration causes engagement or improves time available for family.
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Lin Sun; Runsen Hu; Han Su (2026). Unlocking human potential in the AI Age: how employee-AI collaboration transforms work engagement through dual psychological pathways Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1705671
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