AI in Work Panel
October 14th, 3:30-4:30pm, Mann Library 102
This panel will broadly address how artificial intelligence and robotics are being incorporated into workflows across various industries. In addition to the design of AI systems in the workplace, this session will explore how their use shapes work practice itself, and to what extent workers embrace or push back against these changes.
The Panelists
Dr. Diane BaileyDiane E. Bailey is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, where she studies technology, work, and organization. Her current research interests include precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, computational technologies, digitized artifacts, and metrics/audit cultures. With an expertise in organizational ethnography, she conducts primarily large-scale, team-based empirical studies. She authored the MIT Press book, Technology Choices, Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology. She has won best paper awards in communication, management, engineering, and library studies.
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Amy CheatleAmy's work attends to new communities of craft, computation, and robotics, where collaborative and creative endeavors drive (extra)ordinary forms of work. Her ethnographic research has explored human-robot interactions within fine art furniture studios and operating rooms, giving shape to the ways in which sensual, tacit, and embodied forms of knowledge recalibrate and extend through new computational practices.
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Colten MeisnerColten Meisner is a third year PhD student in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. His research investigates labor in the media and tech industries, with a particular focus on the relationship between workers and algorithms. His recent work draws attention to the less visible human labor that keeps algorithmic systems—like search engines—operating in public life. His research has appeared in New Media & Society and Computers in Human Behavior, and he holds a master’s degree in communication from Texas Christian University.
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The Moderator
Dr. Karen Levy
Karen Levy is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, and associate member of the faculty of Cornell Law School. She researches how law and technology interact to regulate social life, with particular focus on social and organizational aspects of surveillance. Her research analyzes the uses of monitoring for social control in various contexts, from long-haul trucking to intimate relationships. She is also interested in how data collection uniquely impacts, and is contested by, marginalized populations.
