Silicon Republic January 19, 2026
Kirk Chang, of the University of East London, discusses how artificial intelligence could play a larger role in workplace dynamics.
AI is already doing a pretty good job at taking on some of the world’s workload. It has produced academic papers, enhanced space exploration and developed medical treatments.
And AI could soon be used in a managerial role too, making decisions that affect the working lives of human colleagues.
In some ways, this is an expected development. After all, AI is capable of learning, analysing, integrating and producing information.
It outperforms human intelligence in cognition (AI thinks more deeply and more quickly), reasoning (it has a wider scope of analysis and better accuracy) and coordination (it can handle highly complex...







