Forbes January 23, 2026
We have incredibly wonderful tools through generative AI that could potentially take creativity and innovation to new levels. Yet, despite all the technology, we’re not seeing significant changes. A group of researchers think they know why.
The key to AI-boosted creativity is the mindfulness of people using the technology, according to Jackson G. Lu of MIT and Shuhua Sun of Tulane University, who led a study just published in Harvard Business Review and Journal of Applied Psychology. Some people are mindful of how they’re using the tools to their best potential; others just churn the work out.
In particular, creativity is influenced by one’s disposition toward metacognition, what they define as “the ability to plan, evaluate, monitor, and refine their...
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