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Affiliation or alienation? How does AI awareness affect employees’ interaction with co-workers

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to address this research gap by shifting attention from the individual consequences of AI awareness to its interpersonal implications. While workplaces value interactions between co-workers, research on artificial intelligence (AI) awareness has focused on its impact on employees themselves, to the detriment of its impact on interactions among colleagues. Through a longitudinal tracking study and based on social information processing (SIP) theory and the social affiliation l…

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The gain

In a three-wave study of 298 employees in China, greater AI awareness increased workers' need for affiliation with colleagues, which in turn promoted helping behaviour.

The problem

In the same study of 298 employees in China, AI awareness also reduced helping behaviour through a second pathway, workers' sense of alienation from colleagues.

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What this doesn’t fix

The model was tested on three waves of data from 298 participants in China, so the findings reflect a single national sample.

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  1. Chinese Management Studiesdoi:10.1108/cms-06-2025-0621
    Peer-reviewed2026-09-09

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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2524, v1: “Affiliation or alienation? How does AI awareness affect employees’ interaction with co-workers.” Truvace, 2026-11-12. /record/TRV-2026-2524 (accessed on the day you copy it). sha256 f566d8c07e2ab93c…

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