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  "url": "https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-assisted-creativity",
  "title": "The Hidden Cost of AI-Assisted Creativity",
  "summary": "Chris Gash/theispot.com The Research The authors synthesized findings from four studies spanning short-story writing, circular-economy solutions, humor caption contests, and collaborative storytelling. Across all four studies, AI assistance improved individual output quality, but it reduced collective diversity, resulting in more similar, convergent ideas across groups. AI had the greatest positive effect on individuals with lower […]",
  "authors": "Léonard Boussioux, Anil Doshi, Oliver Hauser, and Kartik Hosanagar. Léonard Boussioux is an assistant professor in information systems and operations management at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Anil Doshi is an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management, where he is also the lead on the AI in Education initiative and runs both the Generative AI in Practice Workshop series and the AI Plus Management Consortium. Oliver Hauser is a professor of economics and deputy director at the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter. Kartik Hosanagar is the John C. Hower Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and codirector of the Wharton Human-AI Research Initiative. (Authors are listed in alphabetical order.)",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
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  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-09T11:00:06.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
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  "source_name": "MIT Sloan Management Review AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://sloanreview.mit.edu/topic/artificial-intelligence/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2346",
  "original_url": "https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-assisted-creativity",
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