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Abstract
The Future of Work (FoW) has garnered significant attention among scholars and practitioners, with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) playing an important role in shaping this discourse. Despite the common perception that intelligent machines pose a threat to workers in routine roles, AI technologies are increasingly being utilized for advanced tasks carried out by knowledge workers. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and real-life examples we develop an integrated framework to explore the future of academic work. Our focus is on academics, an essential yet under-researched group of knowledge workers, and we discuss their work in relation to AI across space, time, and task dimensions. Our analysis reveals that the usage of AI technologies can have implications for the research, teaching, and service activities of academics and thereby also for the creation, acquisition, dissemination, and application of knowledge. Based on our framework we develop scenarios and propose a future research roadmap.
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Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures