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From doubt to trust: how AI safety voice bridges the gap between employees and AI teammates through perceived capability and benevolence

Originally published 2026-06-17 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1804847 ↗

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AI / system type

Human–AI collaborative teams and AI safety voice

Workplace evidence

Examines 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: Human–AI collaborative teams and AI safety voice. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.

Why this reading matters

The reading brings safety voice, perceived AI capability and willingness to collaborate into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers multi-wave employee questionnaire survey evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.

Workplace evidence

Work, care and the whole person.

The workplace lens is safety voice, perceived AI capability and willingness to collaborate. Source setting or population: 385 enterprise employees routinely engaged in human–AI collaboration. 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 · Trust

Will an employee’s AI safety concern be heard and acted on?

This multi-wave employee questionnaire survey examines safety voice, perceived AI capability and willingness to collaborate. Its TRICK home is Trust, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.

Study context

385 enterprise employees routinely engaged in human–AI collaboration

Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred

Read with three questions

  1. Will an employee’s AI safety concern be heard and acted on?
  2. What do this study’s design and population — 385 enterprise employees routinely engaged in human–AI collaboration — allow you to infer about another workplace?
  3. When considering safety voice, perceived AI capability and willingness to collaborate, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?

Keep the limits in view

Statistical mediators do not prove a causal mechanism; willingness to collaborate is not evidence that concerns were resolved safely.

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Zexuan Qi; Yangchun Yan; Panpan Ren (2026). From doubt to trust: how AI safety voice bridges the gap between employees and AI teammates through perceived capability and benevolence Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1804847

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