Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Monideepa Tarafdar
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)

When: Thursday, September 17, 2026 | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Where: University of Hamburg, Main Building, Ostflügel (East Wing), Room O 121 (Address: Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg) 
 

Abstract

From AI-based decision making to LLM-enabled everyday tasks, algorithms have become partners in humans’ work. This has led to a cognitive shift in the way that humans interact with algorithms. Such a shift not only shapes task outcomes but can alter how employees allocate attention, experience professional learning and develop/maintain work mastery. I will present different problematized contexts of human-LLM interaction and then show why focusing on the human’s own cognitive action is as essential compensatory approach.