When AI Joins the Team

AI is moving from personal assistant to active teammate inside channels, workflows, and enterprise platforms. In this episode, Human + AI Today looks at the Collaboration and Connection dimension of work: how AI can either strengthen team connection by reducing low-value coordination work, or weaken it by quietly replacing the moments where trust is built.Drawing on Fortune, Gensler's 2026 Global Workplace Survey, Human-Computer Interaction research on human-AI teaming, Academy of Management proceedings, Workday's global survey, and arXiv research on unaccountable delegation and fading skills, the episode offers a practical team experiment: separate interactions that build trust from interactions that merely transfer information, then decide deliberately what AI should handle and what humans should protect.Learn more at innovationlounge.app.