Our next data science ethics book club is on AI at work. You are welcome to pick from this reading list, depending on your interest and the time you have.
Our top five suggestions
- Ramsaroop, Chris. Reality Check 101: Rethinking the Impact of Automation and Surveillance on Farm Workers. Medium (blog), 6 September 2019
- Mateescu, Alexandra, and Aiha Nguyen. "Explainer: Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance", 6 February 2019
- The Verge: How hard will the robots make us work? By Josh Dzieza, Feb 27th 2020
- Sánchez-Monedero, Dencik, Edwards. What does it mean to ‘solve’ the problem of discrimination inhiring? Social, technical and legal perspectives from the UK on automated hiring systems
- Podcasts: Exponential View with Azeem Azhar / Season 4, Episode 29, Empowering Workers in the Digital Future
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And if you fancy a little bit more to read and enjoy, here's some supplementary reading:
Articles
- Khaira, Rachna. ‘Surveillance Slavery: Swachh Bharat Tags Sanitation Workers To Live-Track Their Every Move’. HuffPost India, 19 February 2020
- Brustein, Joshua. ‘Warehouses Are Tracking Workers’ Every Muscle Movement’. Bloomberg.Com, 5 November 2019
- Herrman, John. ‘You Already Email Like a Robot — Why Not Automate It?’ The New York Times, 7 November 2018, sec. Magazine
- Liao, Shannon. ‘Amazon Warehouse Workers Skip Bathroom Breaks to Keep Their Jobs, Says Report’. The Verge, 16 April 2018.
- Gershgorn, Dave. ‘Companies Are on the Hook If Their Hiring Algorithms Are Biased’. Quartz. Accessed 22 October 2018
- McLaren, Samantha. ‘Here’s How IBM Predicts 95% of Its Turnover Using Data’, 17 June 2019
- O’Connor, Sarah. ‘Workplace Surveillance Is Sparking a Cyber Rebellion’, 19 January 2016
Journal Articles and policy reports
- Ajunwa, Ifeoma, Kate Crawford, and Jason Schultz. ‘Limitless Worker Surveillance’. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, 10 March 2016.
- Raghavan, Barocas, Kleinberg, Levy. Mitigating Bias in Algorithmic Hiring: Evaluating Claims and Practices, Dec 2019
Quick reads
- TUC. ‘Union Case Study: The Changing Nature of Surveillance in the Energy Sector’. Accessed 14 May 2020
- Wakefield, Jane. ‘The Man Who Was Fired by a Machine - BBC News’, 21 June 2018
- And a darkly comic Twitter thread for a bit of comic relief!