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“So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy

Tegwen Malik Orcid Logo, Yogesh Dwivedi Orcid Logo, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes Orcid Logo, Emma Louise Slade, Anand Jeyaraj, Arpan Kumar Kar, Abdullah M. Baabdullah, Alex Koohang, Vishnupriya Raghavan, Manju Ahuja, Hanaa Albanna, Mousa Ahmad Albashrawi, Adil S. Al-Busaidi, Janarthanan Balakrishnan, Yves Barlette, Sriparna Basu, Indranil Bose, Laurence Brooks, Dimitrios Buhalis, Lemuria Carter, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Scott W. Cunningham, Gareth H. Davies, Robert M. Davison, Rahul Dé, Denis Dennehy Orcid Logo, Yanqing Duan, Rameshwar Dubey, Rohita Dwivedi, John S. Edwards, Carlos Flavián, Robin Gauld, Varun Grover, Mei-Chih Hu, Marijn Janssen, Paul Jones, Iris Junglas, Sangeeta Khorana, Sascha Kraus, Kai R. Larsen, Paul Latreille, Sven Laumer, F. Tegwen Malik, Abbas Mardani, Marcello Mariani, Sunil Mithas, Emmanuel Mogaji, Jeretta Horn Nord, Siobhan O’Connor, Fevzi Okumus, Margherita Pagani, Neeraj Pandey, Savvas Papagiannidis, Ilias O. Pappas, Nishith Pathak, Jan Pries-Heje, Ramakrishnan Raman, Nripendra P. Rana, Sven-Volker Rehm, Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete, Alexander Richter, Frantz Rowe, Suprateek Sarker, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Wil van der Aalst, Viswanath Venkatesh, Giampaolo Viglia, Michael Wade, Paul Walton, Jochen Wirtz, Ryan Wright

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ransformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents opportunities as well as, often ethical and legal, challenges, and has the p...

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Vishnupriya Raghavan
Manju Ahuja
Hanaa Albanna
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Sriparna Basu
Indranil Bose
Laurence Brooks
Dimitrios Buhalis
Lemuria Carter
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Gareth H. Davies
Robert M. Davison
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Rameshwar Dubey
Rohita Dwivedi
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Varun Grover
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Marijn Janssen
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Iris Junglas
Sangeeta Khorana
Sascha Kraus
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Paul Latreille
Sven Laumer
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Sunil Mithas
Emmanuel Mogaji
Jeretta Horn Nord
Siobhan O’Connor
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Neeraj Pandey
Savvas Papagiannidis
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Jan Pries-Heje
Ramakrishnan Raman
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Sven-Volker Rehm
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Bernd Carsten Stahl
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Wil van der Aalst
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Giampaolo Viglia
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