Workplace

Readings and case studies on the applications of data science in the workplace (e.g., in hiring or promotion) and the ethical implications of using statistical models in such contexts.

Workplace Reading List PDF

Title	Citation
Freedom at Work: Understanding, Alienation, and the AI-Driven Workplace	Vredenburgh (2022)
The Algorithmic Leviathan: Arbitrariness, Fairness, and Opportunity in Algorithmic Decision Making Systems	Creel & Hellman (2022)
Algorithmic Domination in the Gig Economy	Muldoon & Raekstad (2022)
Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization	Zuboff (2015)
A Short-term Intervention for Long-term Fairness in the Labor Market	Hu & Chen (2018)
Digital Innovation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution	Caruso (2017)
Picking on the Same Person: Does Algorithmic Monoculture Lead to Outcome Homogenization?	Bommasani, Creel, Kumar, Jurafsky, & Liang (2024)
Accessible Crowdwork?: Understanding the Value in and Challenge of Microtask Employment for People with Disabilities	Zyskowski, Morris, Bigham, Gray, & Kane (2015)
Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool that Showed Bias Against Women	Dastin (2018)

References

Bommasani, R., Creel, K. A., Kumar, A., Jurafsky, D., & Liang, P. (2024). Picking on the same person: Does algorithmic monoculture lead to outcome homogenization? Red Hook, NY, USA: Curran Associates Inc.

Caruso, L. (2017). Digital innovation and the fourth industrial revolution: Epochal social changes? AI & SOCIETY, 33(3), 379–392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0736-1

Creel, K., & Hellman, D. (2022). The algorithmic leviathan: Arbitrariness, fairness, and opportunity in algorithmic decision-making systems. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 52(1), 26–43. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2022.3

Dastin, J. (2018). Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight-idUSKCN1MK08G; Reuters.

Hu, L., & Chen, Y. (2018). A short-term intervention for long-term fairness in the labor market. Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web - WWW ’18, 1389–1398. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186044

Muldoon, J., & Raekstad, P. (2022). Algorithmic domination in the gig economy. European Journal of Political Theory, 22(4), 587–607. https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851221082078

Vredenburgh, K. (2022). Freedom at work: Understanding, alienation, and the AI-driven workplace. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 52(1), 78–92. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2021.39

Zuboff, S. (2015). Big other: Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization. Journal of Information Technology, 30(1), 75–89. https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2015.5

Zyskowski, K., Morris, M. R., Bigham, J. P., Gray, M. L., & Kane, S. K. (2015). Accessible crowdwork? Understanding the value in and challenge of microtask employment for people with disabilities. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 1682–1693. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675158