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Workers Need to Unionize to Protect Themselves From Algorithmic Bosses
A new report on the social implications of artificial intelligence from NYU’s A.I. Now Institute argues that people who work under algorithms in 2019—from Uber drivers to Amazon warehouse workers to even some white collar office workers who may not know that they’re being surveilled—have increasing cause for concern and collective action.
Vice
Dec 18, 2019
Make Your Job Application Robot-Proof
“Often a job candidate doesn’t even know a system is in use,” and employers aren’t required to disclose it, says Sarah Myers West, a researcher at the AI Now Institute, a New York University research group.
Wall Street Journal
Dec 16, 2019
AI at work: Machines are training human workers to be more compassionate
A study published by New York University's AI Now Institute in April shows how many AI systems favor white people and males.
Tech Xplore
Aug 23, 2019
This AI Software Is ‘Coaching’ Customer Service Workers. Soon It Could Be Bossing You Around, Too
Meredith Whittaker, a distinguished research scientist at New York University and co-director of the AI Now Institute, argues that Cogito could become another example of AI software that’s difficult for people to understand, but ends up having a massive impact on their lives regardless.
Time
Jul 8, 2019
Google walkout organizer leaves company after claims of retaliation
Whittaker said she was told that, in order to stay at the company, she would have to “abandon” her work on AI ethics and her role at AI Now Institute, a research center she cofounded at New York University.
ABC News
Jun 7, 2019
Google workers protest ‘culture of retaliation’ with sit-in
Whittaker wrote that she was informed that her role at the company would be “changed dramatically,” and that she would have to abandon her outside work on artificial intelligence ethics at AI Now Institute, an organization she co-founded.
LA Times
May 1, 2019
Two women led a protest at Google. Is Google retaliating against them now?
The news that Ms. Whittaker’s role would be overhauled came right after Google disbanded its external ethics review board, and at her NYU institute and elsewhere, she has agitated for safeguards around nascent technologies such as facial recognition.
The Washington Post
Apr 27, 2019
Google ‘retaliating against harassment protest organisers’
Meredith Whittaker, who co-signed the email, said her role had also been “changed dramatically”.
BBC
Apr 23, 2019
Google Walkout Organizers Say They Faced Retaliation
Walkout Organizers Say They Faced Retaliation The other email author, Whittaker describes how she was told she would be forced “to abandon my work on AI ethics and the AI Now Institute which I cofounded.” The two women express that they found a common theme among the stories they collected from the walkout, “People who stand up and report discrimination, abuse, and unethical conduct are punished, sidelined, and pushed out.”
Wired
Apr 23, 2019
Google’s Approval Of $135 Million Payout To Execs Accused Of Sexual Misconduct Sparks Fresh Employee Backlash
Meredith Whittaker, a Google employee organizer and cofounder of the AI Now Institute, told Forbes that the “GooglePayOutsForAll” social media effort is meant to highlight the trade-off Google made in prioritizing payouts to Singhal and Rubin. “Imagine a world where we’re not paying sexual predators over $100 million dollars,” she said. “Where else could those resources go?”
Forbes
Mar 12, 2019