Current agenda & guest information

This Wednesday Lab prepares the research proposal and pilot study for the October 15 submission, then opens a 15-minute Richard Rorty dialogue with Professor Muhammad Asghari. The editorial circle and breakout rooms connect this work to the six volumes.

October 14 Writers Lab agenda

Formal 60-minute session

Followed by an optional 30-minute conversation for volume editors, authors, and scholar-practitioners.

0–5 minDavid M. Boje — welcome, orientation, the research proposal, and the pilot study.
5–15 minDavid M. Boje, Nazanin, Rosanna, Ronnie Saylors, and colleagues — ten-minute research-proposal and pilot-study presentation.
15–30 minProfessor Muhammad Asghari — Richard Rorty: philosophy, truth, self-creation, and the questions AI-assisted storytelling raises.
30–40 minOpen discussion — the Rorty dialogue, the research proposal, and questions from participants.
40–50 minEditorial Circle — concise working updates from the active volume circles and incubating volumes, including Mark Hillon, Illa Isenor, and The Consent Machine™.
50–60 minBreakout Storytelling Circles — ten minutes for presenters, Professor Asghari, research-proposal questions, volume and authorship ideas; each participant has an equal speaking opportunity.
CloseReturn and close — one shared takeaway and next Wednesday’s invitation.

Optional follow-on, 30 minutes: volume editors and authors may continue the discussion and plan later Wednesday sessions.

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Permanent home · Volume Editors & Contributing Authors

Three connected conversations for the six volumes

This is the continuing home for these contributions, not a weekly agenda notice. It gives editors, contributors, and readers one stable place to see how the work connects to the six-volume Business Storytelling in the Age of AI project and to the RECORD Registered Report.

Mark Hillon · Strategy Storytelling

Cognitive Surrender

Hillon names the human consequence of a successful Consent Machine: accepting an AI-generated answer or organizational story without retaining the labor of testing evidence, questioning its frame, or judging its effects. Strategy storytelling restores inquiry, dialogue, ethical judgment, and the capacity to read what a smooth story has excluded.

Illa Isenor · Longitudinal human–AI archive

Continuity, Repair, and Human Voice

Isenor carries the narrative, visual instructions, corrections, repetition, and intended meaning between otherwise separate AI systems. Her longitudinal archive makes that human continuity work visible—and shows why the final AI-generated artifact cannot be treated as though it made itself.

Perplexity interpretation: a dark Smart Roach Motel scene with AI figures. — **Perplexity**Darker interpretation of the shared concept.

GPT interpretation: a colorful Smart Roach Motel scene naming a bidirectional human and AI co-creation feedback loop. — **GPT**Transferred context, directed revision, and a changed visual language.

The human continuity bridge: the similarities show what Illa’s continuing direction achieved; the differences show the platform-specific interpretation and the otherwise hidden human labor of repair, memory, and editorial control.

How the three conversations meet RECORD and the six volumes

RECORD Registered Report: the planned 2 × 2 study of narrative fidelity and editorial control tests ownership, agency, authorship continuity, and moral answerability. The Consent Machine supplies the institutional diagnosis; Hillon identifies cognitive surrender; Isenor supplies the lived problem of continuity and repair.
Volume 2 · Algorithmic Sensemaking & Delegated Narrative Editing: asks how organizational meaning is edited, authorized, and displaced through AI.
Volume 3 · True Storytelling & Inclusion: gives human voice, plural testimony, and answerable participation their central place.
Volume 4 · Human–AI Co‑Creation: studies the conditions under which assistance becomes genuine co-creation rather than replacement or erasure.
Volume 5 · SEAM: makes visible the hidden costs and lost human potential beneath AI transformation claims.
Volumes 1 and 6: extend the question to organizational futures and to water, AI, and the life of all species—where consent, accountability, and consequence cannot be separated.

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Richard Rorty dialogue · 15 minutes

Professor Muhammad Asghari

Professor Asghari will open a short preparation dialogue on Richard Rorty: pragmatism, self-creation, moral answerability, and what these questions offer AI-assisted storytelling.

October 14 · Clickable readings and editor resources

Open the working papers and six-volume roster

Each reading opens in a full browser tab rather than inside the small agenda frame.

Research Proposal · Registered Report Stage 1 Pilot Study Invite · General Admission E-Ticket Research Proposal · Password Required Facet 9 · Art of Cleansing · Word Facet 9 · Art of Cleansing · PDF Six Volumes · Editors and Contributors Rorty · AI Business Storytelling Study Guide Rorty · Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Muhammad Asghari and David Boje · Rorty and Moral Answerability