arXiv AI

When AI performs, what remains? An integrative review of generative AI and cognitive capital in individuals and organizations

The article reviews how generative AI influences the long‑term retention of knowledge, skills, and judgment—collectively termed cognitive capital—in both individuals and organizations. It identifies four mechanisms (substitution of practice, scaffolding and feedback, metacognitive calibration, and organizational aggregation) through which AI interaction can either deplete or enhance cognitive capital, and proposes seven evidence‑based principles and five design levers for organizations. The authors argue that cognitive capital provides a multilevel framework for governing AI adoption and call for longitudinal, multilevel research to test their propositions.

arXiv AI
2d ago

Using profiles of cognitive capability to assess AI suitability for workplace tasks

The paper proposes a method for assessing AI suitability for workplace tasks by profiling both AI agents and tasks along shared cognitive capability dimensions. It uses benchmark performance to infer agent capabilities and expert input to weight task requirements, allowing independent updates as models and roles evolve. The authors validate the approach on synthetic agents, six AI systems, and 410 employees across six domains, showing that AI systems vary more by cognitive dimension than by model family, while workplace tasks share a common cognitive core.

By Jonathan Prunty, Marko Te\v{s}i\'c, Patrick Quinn, Jos\'e Hern\'andez-Orallo, Lucy Cheke
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Understanding Critical Thinking in Generative Artificial Intelligence Use: Development, Validation, and Correlates of the Critical Thinking in AI Use Scale

arXiv:2512. 12413v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative AI tools are increasingly embedded in everyday work and learning, yet their fluency, opacity, and propensity to hallucinate mean that users must critically evaluate AI outputs rather than accept them at face value.

By Gabriel R. Lau, Wei Yan Low, Louis Tay, Ysabel Guevarra, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c, Andree Hartanto
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Can LLMs Be CEOs? Benchmarking Strategic Resource Reallocation with Multi-Role Agent Simulation

arXiv:2606. 17459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating the decision-making capabilities of large language models (LLMs) is a growing research priority, yet existing benchmarks focus on isolated cognitive tasks such as reasoning, knowledge retrieval, and economic rationality in stylized settings.

By Yuyang Dai, Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Zhuohan Xie
arXiv AI
Oct 19

OfficeTown: Generative Organizations for Evolving Agent Intelligence

OfficeTown is a generative simulation framework that models professional organizations, where tasks and context evolve from ongoing work. Starting from a natural‑language description of an organization’s purpose, the system initializes members who coordinate, delegate assignments to assistant agents, and review deliverables, while artifacts and decisions persist to influence future tasks. The authors built OfficeTown Bench with 406 tasks and 4,836 evaluation criteria across 23 simulated organizations in eight domains, and show that fine‑tuning and on‑policy distillation on this data improves Qwen3.5‑9B on external professional‑work benchmarks, with a principal–assistant setup outperforming single‑ and multi‑agent baselines.

By Hongchen Wei, Daohong Ying, Zhi Hong, Aidan Wu, Bei Liu, Ruichun Ma, Yifan Yang, Qi Dai, Kai Qiu, Rui Xu, Dongdong Chen, Zhenzhong Chen, Chong Luo