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Elinor Särner is a Doctoral student at Linköping University's Department of Economic and Industrial Development (IEI), working within the Projects, Innovations and Entrepreneurship (PIE) division under the Faculty of Science and Engineering. She conducts research as part of the Complex Intelligent Systems and the Management of the Future (Nicer) group and the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS).
Her research focuses on understanding how Artificial Intelligence can be responsibly integrated into society by examining how different actors in complex systems relate to AI and how it affects their interaction. She employs a meaning-making perspective to study how actors jointly understand and create meaning of how AI contributes to future complex systems, particularly in critical infrastructure like energy systems.
Her recent publications analyze prospective sensemaking in AI projects, human-AI collaboration in future planning, and the development of AI tools for complex system understanding. Her work demonstrates how AI integration creates challenges in organizational communication and understanding, particularly when multiple stakeholders with different technical knowledge levels collaborate.
Elinor's research has practical applications in energy system planning, as demonstrated in her case study of MälarEnergi in Västerås and the municipality of Västerås, where she examined how an AI tool was developed to plan energy systems for a new residential area. She identifies communication challenges between technical suppliers and municipal actors, highlighting the need for human-AI collaboration to navigate uncertainties in predicting future system behavior.
