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Attitudinal openness to AI as supervisor or colleague/subordinate in Japan: the role of advanced digital technology familiarity
Originally published 2026-08-18 · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/frai.2026.1920376 ↗
AI / system type
Hypothetical AI supervisor and colleague/subordinate arrangements
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: Hypothetical AI supervisor and colleague/subordinate arrangements. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings openness to AI supervisors and colleagues across time into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers three-wave balanced-panel observational study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is openness to AI supervisors and colleagues across time. Source setting or population: Continuously employed respondents in Japan. 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
Would I feel differently about AI as a colleague than as my supervisor?
This three-wave balanced-panel observational study examines openness to AI supervisors and colleagues across time. Its TRICK home is Trust, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
Continuously employed respondents in Japan
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Would I feel differently about AI as a colleague than as my supervisor?
- What do this study’s design and population — Continuously employed respondents in Japan — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering openness to AI supervisors and colleagues across time, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
The outcome is stated openness to hypothetical AI roles, not actual adoption; familiarity associations should not be treated as a training effect.
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Makoto Nakakita; Takahiro Hoshino (2026). Attitudinal openness to AI as supervisor or colleague/subordinate in Japan: the role of advanced digital technology familiarity Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2026.1920376
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