{
  "title": "IA on the job: when should a pilot be stopped?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/ia-on-the-job-quand-arreter-un-pilote-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-05-14",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An AI pilot consumes time, budget and its sponsors’ credibility. Those investments alone do not justify continuing it.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "AI on the Job",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lugano",
    "region": "Tessin",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Hal Arkes and Catherine Blumer (1985, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) documented the sunk-cost effect: a prior investment of money, time or effort can increase the tendency to continue a course of action."
    },
    {
      "heading": "When initial responsibility shapes the next decision",
      "point": "Barry Staw (1976, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance) showed experimentally that personal responsibility for an initial decision could encourage further investment following negative results."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "These studies do not establish that a disappointing pilot should be stopped immediately."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot settle",
      "point": "These classic studies do not concern generative AI and provide no universal stopping threshold."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lugano",
      "point": "Within SHR’s “IA on the job” programme, one exercise is to set a continuation condition and a review date before the trial: for example, continue only if total preparation and correction time is lower than for the usual process, with no increase in predefined instances of non-compliance."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Blumer",
      "year": "1985",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 422,
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  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/ia-on-the-job/lugano",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/lugano",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}