Juan Manuel Lucero

Radar AI

Recent studies on artificial intelligence and the human side, chosen for the academic weight of the people who sign them. Each piece explains what the study found and adds a personal take on why it matters.
2026
The engine behind the circular economy
According to the paper, companies that invest in the technology innovate more in the circular economy. Maybe. But it could also…
2026
When dual motivation shapes performance
Apparently, using AI improves job performance by increasing autonomous motivation and proactive task adaptation, but...it hurts…
2026
When technology threatens work
A study surveyed about 6,000 Americans and Canadians and found that, although some support the technology, a majority sees it as…
2026
More management openings, more creative skills
Early predictions said middle management would be the first to become redundant. Here it goes the other way: where adoption is…
2026
More greenwashing in sustainability reports
That machines exaggerate a sustainability report does not surprise us, but that readers find it more credible than the real one…
2026
When humans and machines decide better
An interesting framework for thinking about when the mixed team (human, AI) performs better than each part separately. In…
2025
Star employees widen their lead
People often say AI evens things out: a junior with Gemini or ChatGPT performs almost like a senior. But...what if it were the…
2025
Guided prompts sharpen critical thinking
Interesting: forty percent less mental delegation, just by changing how you ask. Of all these results, it is the one most useful…
2025
The technology that changes trust at work
When everyone has their own assistant, they stop asking the person next to them. That does not show up in any productivity…
2025
Social presence drives collaboration
It does not need to look human: it is enough to feel that someone is on the other side for people to engage. And it works better…
2026
From pilots to institutional decisions
Everyone has pilots and almost no one has decisions made with this. The difference between the two is not technological, it is…
2025
The doctor who stops examining
A doctor who stops examining the patient because the system already suggested the diagnosis. They lose the skill in months and…
2025
Four tensions of the agentic company
That those who are ahead gain an advantage is expected, and it is what gets quoted from the report. What I take from it are the…
2026
When abundance complicates strategy
With more analysis, deciding was supposed to get easier. The opposite happens: now any path can be justified with data. Deciding…
2026
Women perceive more bias in hiring
In a survey of 4,417 people in 28 European countries, women, older people, non-white people, those on temporary contracts and…
2026
Decisions built on unjustified beliefs
Pritchard is not saying the machine is often wrong. He says something worse: that even when it is right, what you take away does…
2026
Relevance guides effective action
The authors show that relevance determines which information and actions are meaningful in a given context, and that without it…
2026
Job satisfaction varies by sector
In interviews with 24 employees in IT, healthcare and services, it was found that those in IT and healthcare expect their…
2026
Acceptance depends on the role
In a survey of 5,250 workers in eleven European countries, most were willing to accept support systems when they act as…
2026
Better climate risk management with functional tools
In a panel of 51 countries between 1996 and 2023, it was found that using detection, capture and integrated action tools…
2026
When machines are credited with morals
In a cross-sectional survey of 758 participants, the perceived agency of language-model-based moral advisors was found to be…
2026
Frames that guide professional judgment
They analyzed 57 interviews with professionals and millions of articles and posts, identifying three main debates (method, mind,…