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Drawing on Conservation of Resources and Social Information Processing theories, this study conceptualizes AI adoption as a resource-restructuring mechanism that shapes employees\u2019 resource environments. A dual-path model is proposed, in which AI adoption affects work engagement through a resource gain pathway (fairness perception) and a resource loss pathway (perceived organizational dehumanization). Using three-wave time-lagged data from employees in knowledge-intensive and highly digitalized enterprises in China, the results show that AI adoption simultaneously enhances work engagement via fairness perception and reduces it via perceived dehumanization. Furthermore, AI transparency serves as a key system-level moderator that strengthens the positive pathway while weakening the negative pathway. 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