Alexandr Lenk & Arvind Karunakaran | Industry Conversation with Instacart
This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
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This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
This talk will cover key insights from the third report, released in October 2026.

This talk will cover key insights from the third report, released in October 2026.
Save the Date. Artificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both the questions researchers can ask and the methods they use to answer them.

Save the Date. Artificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both the questions researchers can ask and the methods they use to answer them.
The rapid acceleration of AI comes with a profound wave of anxiety. Across every sector of society, people are facing unsettling questions about their worth and their place in a shifting world.

The rapid acceleration of AI comes with a profound wave of anxiety. Across every sector of society, people are facing unsettling questions about their worth and their place in a shifting world.
Alexandr Lenk (Instacart Economics) will share findings on how AI adoption diffuses through peer networks inside firms and drives real productivity gains with evidence from a major e-commerce company's engineering and data-science teams. Arvind Karunakaran (Stanford MS&E) will offer an organizational lens on what follows: how the arrival of AI tools reshapes roles, workflows, expert authority, evaluative metrics, and and oversight relationships at work, drawing on his field research on human-AI augmentation. Moderated discussion will explore where these two pictures meet, and where they diverge.