Social sciences
Project Volano
Enabling everyone to shape AI Project Volano is carrying out cross-disciplinary research to understand how we can value and utilize community perspectives throughout the whole of the AI pipeline. Our first use case is to…
What if AI systems weren’t chatbots?
Research Intern – Socio-Technical Workflow Analysis
Within Microsoft Research, we are looking at how teams get real work done across research, engineering, and program management. That includes how people plan projects, analyze results, share information, and stay aligned across groups. This…
New Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits
For the past five years, the New Future of Work report has captured how work is changing. This year, the shift feels especially sharp. Previous editions have focused on technology’s role in increasing productivity by…
Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want
Microsoft Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and researchers Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Rebecca Janssen unpack the New Future of Work Report 2025 and explore the ideal AI-driven working world. Plus, is AI a tool or a collaborator? And…