Wednesday, November 01, 2023
4:00 – 5:30pm
SJRC Common Room, Oakes College 231 + Zoom (Registration)
SAVE-the-DATE!
Join Science & Justice Affiliated faculty Warren Sack (Film & Digital Media) and guest Roger Søraa in a conversation with Science & Justice on artificial Intelligence in the recruitment process. We will gather in the SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231, and have Zoom available, register here.
How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used and impacting recruitment processes? This talk provides insight from a European research project on AI-enhanced recruitment processes and what sociotechnical dangers that can lead to. AI is increasingly being used to find, assess, and hire candidates for a wide variety of jobs, but with upcoming regulations and strict privacy concerns, what can we expect from AI in Human Resource Management (HRM) practices? Is AI helping, helpful, or making us helpless? Who is the ideal candidate for a job, and how are (European) companies dealing with issues connected to diversity and discriminatory biased hirings? This STS-based analysis from Norway will aim to shed some light on this for an American audience. The research is drawn from the EU-funded project BIAS, more information available at www.biasproject.eu.
Dr. Roger Andre Søraa is an Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His main research interests are the digitalization and robotization of society, especially on work and health, its epistemological consequences, and inclusion and diversity issues. He leads the research group “Digitalization and Robotization of Society” (DigiKULT). He is the author of AI for Diversity, published by Routledge in 2023, and co-author of the forthcoming Digitalization: Societal Change, User Perspectives, and Critical Thinking. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6800-0558