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WAIM Summer Conference 2022 trip report

Saiph Savage, one of the speakers at the WAIM Summer Conference, posted a nice summary of the event on her .

Announcing the WAIM Doctoral Research Fellows!

The  is delighted to announce the five WAIM Doctoral Research Fellows for the 2021-22 academic year. The Fellows were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, which was systematically reviewed by an interdisciplinary panel of judges. Each Fellow will be supported with a $50,000 stipend to support the advancement of their dissertation research.

Using Work System Theory, Facets of Work, and Dimensions of Smartness to Characterize Applications and Impacts of AI

Type: Report
Author: Steven Alter
Year of Publishing: 2020
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm, Work System Theory, Facets of Work, Dimensions of Smartness

This paper presents an approach for describing and characterizing al-gorithms that are discussed as though they embody artificial intelligence. After identifying key assumptions related to algorithms and summarizing work sys-tem theory (WST), this paper uses a hypothetical example to introduces aspects of WST and two additional ideas, facets of work and dimensions of smartness in devices and systems. Next, it applies those ideas to aspects of five AI-related examples presented by entrepreneurs and researchers at an MIT AI conference in July 2020.

JASIST Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence and Work”

For this special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), we are calling for papers that advance the relationship between artificial Intelligence and work.

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  • From Slate’s Better Life Lab podcast: https://t.co/gWhTtzKEO0 Against the Machine> with guests David Autor & Joe Li… https://t.co/NsnmHJfRwu 9 months 4 weeks ago
  • One of the books reviewed is https://t.co/0xKxS12z2O and the Future of Work> by https://t.co/IlIdIEiWK7 Benanav>, now at Syracuse. 10 months 17 hours ago
  • From the New Yorker: The Problem with Blaming Robots for Taking Our Jobs: https://t.co/Gwteo80BNL 10 months 17 hours ago
  • From the New York Times: Robots Aren’t Done Reshaping Warehouses: https://t.co/3cVsz8gKDJ. 10 months 1 day ago
  • The article described is Acemoglu, D. and Restrepo, P. (2022), Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequal… https://t.co/tBz7x89oWM 10 months 2 days ago
  • From https://t.co/RHq9rvNn9i>: New data suggest most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980 comes from automation: https://t.co/NNUeIxfsa0 10 months 2 days ago
  • From MarTech (Marketing Technology): 16 AI-powered writing tools and how to make best use of them: https://t.co/ztIEgc4tUA 10 months 1 week ago
  • From The Verge: Notion is using AI to automatically write your blog posts, job descriptions, and poetry: https://t.co/n4LhBZTkgF 10 months 1 week ago
  • From the Wall Street Journal: Can You Tell Whether This Headline Was Written by a Robot? https://t.co/rr0pGjrilb> 10 months 1 week ago
  • Katherine C. Kellogg and Melissa A. Valentine in the Wall Street Journal: Five Mistakes Managers Make When Introduc… https://t.co/jQpwGCoG3K 10 months 2 weeks ago

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