A call for an Academia AI Act and for scholars’ education

The only constant is change, Heraclitus claimed, some 2500 years ago. Who knows what the great Thinker would say today, faced with the profound and rapid transformation that AI is generating in so many fields of human existence. One of them is Research and Education. Are we, management scholars, prepared to face the ongoing AI revolution in our profession? AI, and in particular Generative_AI, is a transformative technology that can profoundly modify the way we do research and education, but most of academicians are not prepared for change, to seize the big opportunities and face the significant threats it entails. Back in 2018, Stephen Hawking stated that ‘AI will be either the best thing that’s ever happened to us, or it will be the worst thing’, emphasizing the importance of approaching AI in a conscious and responsible manner.