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## Segment 9 — adoption

## Article 37 — a037

# Alex Chan

**Role in this source:** Primary researcher and cited voice. His empirical work and prescriptions are the entire substantive content of the source; the article presents and interprets his findings for a management audience.

**Profile:** Assistant Professor of Business Administration at [[entity-harvard-business-school-d9|Harvard Business School]] whose research focuses on human interaction with Explainable AI and on market design. He conducted the **2,512-participant loan-approval experiment** demonstrating [[concept-willful-ignorance-in-ai|willful ignorance]] in AI usage. Per enrichment, he is also an Associate at the HBS AI Institute and a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER.

**Canonical references (enrichment):**
- Personal academic site: `alexchan.net`
- HBS faculty profile: `hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=1495303`
- Working paper: [[entity-preference-for-explanations-paper|Preference for Explanations: Case of Explainable AI]]

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Concepts: [[concept-willful-ignorance-in-ai]], [[concept-explainable-ai]], [[concept-checkbox-transparency]], [[concept-moral-quandary-avoidance]], [[concept-algorithmic-override]]
- Claims: [[claim-financial-incentives-dampen-transparency]], [[claim-bias-suspicion-increases-avoidance]], [[claim-explanations-increase-override]], [[claim-transparency-mandates-insufficient]]
- Framework: [[framework-responsible-xai-deployment]]
- Quotes: [[quote-bayesian-agents]], [[quote-willful-blindness]], [[quote-stop-asking-why]]
- Contrarian insight: [[contrarian-transparency-desire]]
- Action items: [[action-align-incentives-critical-engagement]], [[action-encourage-second-guessing]]