Is AI quietly eroding our skills?

My doctoral research studies what happens to students' and professionals' skills when tasks are increasingly outsourced to AI.

Alexander Scheuer

Alexander Scheuer

PhD Candidate

Mitigation

How AI tutors may help building our critical thinking

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Upside

An overview of commercialization models and value potential of agentic technologies

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Downside

Consequences of AI interrupting the learning path of juniors to become seniors

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Live Research

Live in the field right now: the KI-Tutor Luka study

One study is already running with real students — registrations are open.

business@school

Student Learning · Field Experiment

KI-Tutor Luka — AI Tutors to Stimulate Critical Thinking in Students

Live · Field Experiment

An AI tutor deployed with high school students together with business@school (a BCG education initiative) and TUM, testing whether AI tutoring interactions build critical thinking. Students, parents, and teachers can register and take part in the live study.

Open project site

Teaching

AI Value Creation

The lecture series where this research meets the classroom.

AI Value Creation

The TUM × BCG AI Strategy Lecture Series: five Thursday lectures at TU Munich on how leading enterprises create value with AI — co-taught by TUM and BCG, with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, BMW, Schaeffler, B/S/H, and more.

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Partners & Speakers

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Collaborators

Who I work alongside

Fellow researchers and practitioners contributing to this research program.

Dr. Andrej Levin

Dr. Andrej Levin

Senior Managing Partner & Director, Head of BCG X in Central Europe

What they're working on

Leads BCG X's Central Europe practice as Managing Partner & Director, bringing an enterprise AI-adoption perspective into the research program and co-teaches "AI Value Creation" at TUM School of Management.

Svea Feldmann, M.Sc.

Svea Feldmann, M.Sc.

Doctoral Candidate

What they're working on

Researches AI adoption through an Information Systems and Organizational Behavior lens: studying how firms structure and govern AI-driven capability development across teams.

Thilo Tamme, M.Sc., M.Sc., MBA

Thilo Tamme, M.Sc., M.Sc., MBA

Doctoral Candidate

What they're working on

Studies AI-native ways of working through qualitative interview research and collaborates with SONA8 on applied AI tooling for professional services.

Partners

Delivered in collaboration with

Five institutions supporting this research program.

Boston Consulting Group

Field setting & applied deployment partner.

BCG X

Field setting & partner for applied AI tooling and experimentation.

SONA8

Applied AI venture partner, connected via ongoing PhD research.

business@school

Education initiative; partner on the AI-tutor study.

TUM School of Management

Field setting & lecture partner

Interested in this research?

Happy to talk through any of the five topics, share working papers, or discuss collaboration.

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