September 10, 2025

When AI enables and undermines: dual mechanisms linking AI usage to task performance

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Field study examines how AI usage influences task performance in employees, highlighting dual pathways and core self-evaluations.

AI usage enhances task performance through autonomous motivation and promotion-focused job crafting, while impairing it via controlled motivation.
Moderated mediation analysis reveals that core self-evaluations amplify positive and buffer negative effects on task performance.
Three-wave, multi-source field study with 409 employee-supervisor pairs in AI-intensive industries in China provides robust findings.
Study enriches self-determination theory in the context of AI, offering practical insights for effective AI integration strategies in workplaces.

Zhang et al. (2025) studied this question.

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