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Collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence is redefining roles and responsibilities in a rapidly changing technological landscape. This paper explores the dynamics of this partnership, starting with an overview of its significance and the historical evolution of roles influenced by technology. It explores AI as a collaborator, focusing on augmentation rather than replacement and success stories of synergy between humans and AI systems. It will continue to discuss how AI can redefine human roles and make creative, emotional, and ethical oversight uniquely human domains. It highlights the joint obligations of society, legislators, and designers to guarantee the ethical development of AI and the closing of the digital gap, with equality of access and inclusivity being of utmost importance. The challenges of trust, bias, and resistance in human-AI collaboration are addressed, and critical education and training in preparing individuals and reskilling the workforce are discussed for an AI-integrated future. Ethical and legal considerations are analyzed with an emphasis on accountability, privacy, and global governance. Finally, the paper conceptualizes a future in which human-AI collaboration develops innovation, inclusivity, and co-creation to form society, where technological advancement harmoniously exists with human values. An abstract that offers a roadmap for understanding this shared future of humans and AI together.
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Sai Rama Krishna, M., Monika Singh, T., Karuna, D., Divya, R., Shuaib, M. (2025). Synergic Thinking: A New Era of Human-AI Decision-Making. In: Reddy, C.K.K., Joseph, S., Joshi, H., Doss, S., Ouaissa, M. (eds) The Power of Agentic AI: Redefining Human Life and Decision-Making. Sustainable Artificial Intelligence-Powered Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89424-4_10
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