Subject Guides

Weapons of Math Destruction, Common Read 2022

This guide is intended to help faculty and students engage with the 2022 Common Read book, Weapons of Math Destruction. Special thanks to Vicky Ludas Orlofsky and Courtney Walsh of Stevens Institute of Technology for the foundation for this guide.

Doing the Job

AI and Working

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Future of Work
NIOSH Science Blog (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
May, 2021
Algorithms workers can’t see are increasingly pulling the management strings
The Conversation
August, 2020
"[A]lgorithmic management entrenches a power imbalance between management and worker. Algorithms are closely guarded secrets. Their decision-making processes are hidden. It’s a black-box: perhaps you have some understanding of the data that went in, and you see the result that comes out, but you have no idea of what goes on in between."
Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: How AI is Transforming Your Employee Experience
Forbes
May 2019
How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?
BBC
April, 2019
“So workplace surveillance could be empowering for staff and useful for companies looking to become more efficient and profitable.
But implemented in the wrong way, it could also become an unpopular tool of oppression that proves counterproductive.”
Activision Blizzard pays employees to track their pregnancies
PC Gamer
April 2019