What AI Practitioners Could Learn From A 1989 MIT Dissertation

More than thirty years ago, Fred Davis developed the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as part of his dissertation at MIT. It's one of the most widely cited papers in the field of technology acceptance (a.k.a. Since 1989, it's spawned an entire field of research that extends and adds to it. What does TAM convey and how might today's AI benefit from it? TAM is an intuitive framework.