Léonard Boussioux speaking on stage at Foster AI Day

Press & media.

Where my research and ideas have reached beyond academia — from the front pages of The New York Times and CNBC to industry reports by Bain and explainers in Knowledge at Wharton.

Teaching & research, featured

Foster Magazine

The Creative Edge — Human-AI Collaboration in Problem-Solving

Research in the press

The Crowdless Future?

A global crowdsourcing challenge pitting human-crowd ideas against human–AI collaboration: the crowd produced more novel ideas, but human–AI teams produced more viable ones. Read the paper ↗

Bain & Company

Sep 2025

Innovation Rewired: When Imagination Meets AI

Cites the UW–Harvard study on how AI-assisted crowdsourcing compares to human-only solvers in generating innovation ideas.

Entrepreneur

Jun 2025

Can AI Come Up With Better Ideas Than People? Sort Of, Science Says.

“The quality of your questioning and critical thinking is what matters most.”

CEOWORLD Magazine

Oct 2024

People — Not Ideas, Tools, Money, or Time — The True Drivers of Innovation

Mar 2024

AI and Innovation: A Question of Quantity vs. Quality

“It's easy for AI to recombine ideas, but it's harder to get moonshots.”

Big Think

Nov 2023

Can AI Create Better Business Ideas Than Humans?

The Narrative AI Advantage?

A field experiment on AI-augmented evaluation of early-stage innovations — persuasive AI narratives made reviewers reject good ideas more often, raising false negatives. Read the paper ↗

Mar 2025

The Dangers of Deferring to AI: It Seems So Right Even When It's Wrong

On the field experiment finding that AI-generated narrative explanations made evaluators reject good ideas more often — “you really need humans synthesizing and validating.”