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SEM 704

Individual Research

3 units

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Understand Generative AI capabilities (and limitations)
  • Use Generative AI in a manner consistent with their own ontological perspective
  • Develop Claude “skills” for situated, contextual use of AI in research
  • Apply Claude “skills” to the development of a research project
  • Most of you will want to work with your own empirical material in this seminar. Before
  • Tuesday September 15th: 9:00am-12:00pm

Readings

  • Introduction by Salk and Chapter 2 “An Anthropologist Visits the Laboratory” in Latour, B., &
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  • Woolgar, S. (1986). Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts. Princeton University Press
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  • Lindberg, A. “Human-Embedded Agentic Design (HEAD).” Substack. https://aronlindberg.substack.com/p/human-embedded-agentic-design- head?r=arahn&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true ↗
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  • Bailey, D. E., Leonardi, P. M., & Barley, S. R. (2012). The lure of the virtual. Organization science, 23(5), 1485-1504
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  • Zhang, E. (2025). Why language models hallucinate. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04664
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  • Gartenberg, C., Hasan, S., Murray, A., & Pierce, L. (2026). More versus better: Artificial intelligence, incentives, and the emerging crisis in peer review. Organization Science, 37(3), 795-812
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  • Beane, M. (2019). Shadow learning: Building robotic surgical skill when approved means fail. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(1), 87-123
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  • Course Grades Obtained by Graduate Students
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