Human-AI Collaboration: It's Not So Simple // C. Merrell Stone // AI in Production 2025
Speaker

C. Merrell Stone explores the interrelationship of people and technology through a mixed-methods approach leveraging human factors research, innovation tools and processes, and strategic foresight. Her work has helped Fortune 500 companies across the globe re-think their possible futures to strategically and effectively employ innovations and emerging technologies. She currently uses strategic foresight to advise clients and executives in Avanade’s Office of the CTO, with special areas of focus including immersive technologies, conversational AI, and graph thinking.
SUMMARY
It’s very easy to get caught up in imagining all of the amazing things AI will one day be able to help us with. But many organizations cannot afford to invest in pipe dreams. Instead, they need to focus on what is achievable now. In this talk we'll explore a specific case study about a project designed to create a hybrid human/AI agent system and extract some high-level principles that will give participants a great place to start as they build their own agential systems.
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