This paper assesses the influence of artificial intelligence on the dynamics of organizational routines. Using an ethnographic study of an organization that operates a supercomputer (the artificial intelligence), we examine the counterintuitive observation that actors keep routines stable despite suggestions to change routines. We identify three different practices (i.e., depriving, amplifying and subordinating) that actors use to accomplish the stability of their routines, and we find that, in each of those practices, actors relate to the artificial intelligence technology. Building on these findings, we theorize that the role of AI for routine stability can be described as a process of enacting relations. Our insights contribute to research on artificial intelligence technology and organizing and routine dynamics.
