7:00pm, Thursday 16th of May, Online via Zoom

Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world practices, journalist Hilke Schellmann will join us to reveal the secret rise of AI in the world of work.

Testing them herself, she's discovered that many algorithms making these high-stakes calculations do more harm than good, and that their origins can be traced to troubling pseudoscientific ideas about people’s ‘true’ essence.

From software analysing interviewees’ facial expressions and tone of voice, to video games assessing their performance, to ‘personality profiles’ built from candidates’ social media, almost all major employers use AI in recruitment. Programmes track their staff’s activity, group dynamics and physical health, identifying who is productive, a bully, worth long-term investment, or likely to quit. But can we trust them?

In a world of severe job insecurity, workplace algorithms are on the brink of dominating or even threatening us―join us for this event if you want to fight back. Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy-award-winning journalism professor at New York University and a freelance reporter holding artificial intelligence accountable. Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, and MIT Technology Review, among others.

TICKETS:

Members: Virtual Ticket £0

Non-members: Virtual Ticket £15. Want to become a member? Click Here