2025 Challenge: AI, Work, and Professional Integrity
The RB and LPX Foundation invites submissions for its 2025 public challenge on the role of AI in professional life. As large-scale models and automation tools reshape workflows across industries, organizations and individuals face difficult questions not only about what AI can do, but what it should do.
This year’s challenge addresses three related concerns:
- the ethical consequences of how organizations adopt and deploy AI tools,
- the transformation of professional training in response to new machine learning paradigms, and
- the effects of hype-driven narratives that exaggerate technical capability or promote short-term financial gain over sustainable practice.
We ask participants to propose frameworks, research prototypes, or documented practices that engage with one or more of these concerns. Submissions might explore ways to document ethical AI use in organizations, outline new training models that support critical engagement with AI tools, or provide empirical analysis of how exaggerated claims affect public trust or workplace decision-making.
Submissions will be evaluated based on clarity of research question, reproducibility, and the degree to which the proposal engages with real-world consequences. The Foundation seeks work that informs a practical and principled public understanding of AI in professional settings.