{
  "title": "IA on the job: who checks when everyone can?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/ia-on-the-job-qui-verifie-quand-tout-le-monde-peut-le-faire-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-05-30",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Making an AI-generated text available to several colleagues does not guarantee that it will be checked. Research on collective effort invites a distinction between shared access and effective responsibility.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "AI on the Job",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Bibb Latané, Kipling Williams and Stephen Harkins (1979, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) showed, in experimental sound-production tasks, that individual effort could decrease when participants believed they were contributing to a collective output."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: a contribution that genuinely matters",
      "point": "Steven Karau and Kipling Williams (1993, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) synthesised research on social loafing and proposed a model linking effort to the expected usefulness of an individual's contribution."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that appointing a reviewer is enough to make any generated document reliable."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not allow us to assume",
      "point": "These studies address neither generative assistants nor document validation in precision manufacturing."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "As part of SHR's 'IA on the job' programme, an exercise could compare two review arrangements within a Neuchâtel team working in microtechnology, watchmaking or precision microelectronics, using comparable fictional drafts with no production use: a collective request or checks assigned to named individuals."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Harkins",
      "year": "1979",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Williams",
      "year": "1993",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 402,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-05-30-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/ia-on-the-job/neuchatel",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/neuchatel",
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}