21.1. REPAIR Dialogues with Dominik Siemon

Assistant Professor Dominik Siemon will give an online presentation entitled The Developmental Bypass: Understanding AI’s Impact on Writer Development Through Experiments and a Field Study on January 21 at 9:00-10:00.

Join us using this link: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/63474356990 

REPAIR Dialogues is an informal online series where researchers and collaborators from the REPAIR project share their ongoing work, ideas, and findings. Each session features a short presentation followed by an open discussion. All are welcome!

Presentation of the day

The talk introduces the idea of the developmental bypass: a phenomenon where AI writing assistance boosts short-term output quality yet weakens the psychological processes through which writers develop identity, confidence, and long-term capability. I will outline the empirical work completed so far and how it reveals this bypass, then discuss the next steps of our research, including a large-scale field experiment that observes real-world writing behavior through a custom research platform. The session will also briefly demonstrate the current prototype of this platform and explain how it supports upcoming longitudinal data collection.

Dominik Siemon is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Service Development at LUT University’s Department of Software Engineering. His work focuses on how people interact and collaborate with artificial intelligence and the implications this has for the future of work and our society. He studies the design and development of intelligent digital systems and services, conducts meta-research on design science research and human-computer interaction, and investigates how information systems can advance environmental, social, health, and justice sustainability.