AI Dispatch from Sundance, and Hilke Schellmann on Bias in AI Hiring Practices

AI bias in hiring practices and workplace algorithms discussion.

Guest

Hilke Schellmann headshot

Hilke Schellmann

Journalist and author

Hilke Schellmann is a journalist, professor, and author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired—and Why We Need to Fight Back Now. Her reporting examines automated hiring, workplace surveillance, algorithmic management, and the ways software-mediated decisions affect workers.

About this conversation

As our quick appetizer, a quick dispatch from the Sundance Film Festival, where AI was seemingly *everywhere*.

For our entrée, we speak with Hilke Schellmann, author of the new book "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now."

If you have a job, or will some day get a job, or know someone with a job, this is a topic relevant to you.

Link to The Algorithm:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Decides-Hired-Monitored-Promoted/dp/0306827344/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Hilke on Twitter/X:

https://twitter.com/HilkeSchellmann

Open the original episode