About
Hitoshi Nishimura is a Research Assistant in Behavioural Science at The Inclusion Initiative (TII) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, specialising in human-AI collaboration and the future of work. His research examines how AI tools reshape workplace cognition, with a particular focus on cognitive offloading and psychological safety, and their implications for performance and decision-making.
He contributes to the Generations Research Hub, a collaboration with global consulting firm Protiviti, which draws on large-scale, multi-country survey data to understand how emerging workers experience technological change. His work focuses on how organisational environments, workplace norms, and individual capabilities interact to shape AI adoption, productivity gains, and psychological safety, informing the design of human-centred, inclusive, and sustainably high-performance workplaces.
Hitoshi holds a BSc in Psychology and Language Sciences and an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences from University College London. His research background spans experimental psychology, neuroimaging, and quantitative analysis. His recent work has examined how AI-generated summaries influence performance and decision-making, improving outcomes when accurate while also showing how fluently presented misinformation can distort confidence in one’s own judgement.