Serendipity with Generative AI: Repurposing knowledge components during polycrisis with a Viable Systems Model approach
arXiv:2602.23365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organisations face polycrisis uncertainty yet overlook embedded knowledge. We show how generative AI can operate as a serendipity engine and knowledge transducer to discover, classify and mobilise reusable components (models, frameworks, patterns) from existing documents. Using 206 papers, our pipeline extracted 711 components (approx 3.4 per paper) and organised them into a repository aligned to Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM). We contribute i) conceptually, a theory of planned serendipity in which GenAI lowers […]