Since the mid-2010s, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has increased both people's expectations and their anxieties. Technology-centered optimism is largely widespread, hoping that AI will lead to a blessing of human life and society by maximizing productivity and efficiency....

AI has been through several booms and we have currently reached the 3rd AI boom. Although AI has been evolving over six decades it seems that the current boom is different from the previous booms. In this paper, we attempt to elucidate the issues for widespread adoption of AI in firms. Through...

Analyses of AI adoption focus on its adoption at the individual task level. What has received significantly less attention is how AI adoption is shaped by the fact that organisations are composed of many interacting tasks. AI adoption may, therefore, require system-wide change which is both a...

The book investigates the determinants which are influencing the acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) in an organizational context, focusing on the German financial services industry. An AI-specific acceptance model is being developed based on technology acceptance models as well as being...