The Social Importance of Being Stubborn When an Organization Meets AI

Renaud Foucart, Fanqi Zeng and Shidong Wang

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Abstract: In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), we have access to high-quality advice from intelligent machines, creating tensions between efficiency and autonomy. While it is often individually beneficial to follow AI recommendations, it can lead to dangerous herding behavior when AI provides incorrect information, a phenomenon observed in corporate scandals such as biased hiring algorithms, financial automation, or the monitoring of employees. In this paper, we show how a small group of stubborn workers following their own, imperfect but independent, information may help mitigate the risks of AI advice in their organization. However, stubbornness is costly---such individuals persist only if subsidized in the recruitment and promotion system despite lower average performance, or if they have a strong intrinsic preference for autonomy.

Date: 2025-11-11
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