The workshop "The Sociotechnical Consequences of AI: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Ethical, Organizational, Social, and Computational Dimensions" took place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on September 13, 2024. It was organized by the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) together with the UNC School for Information and Library Science.
Topic
AI is increasingly permeating different areas of society and being integrated into daily work and leisure practices, organizational structures, and ways of thinking about the world. Some of the areas impacted by AI and relevant to contemporary discourses are information retrieval and knowledge production (business, science, journalism, librarianship and education), predictive and evaluative work (policing, climate science, health and prevention of disease, finance, insurance), as well as communication tasks (customer service, human resources/recruiting). Some of the pertinent topics related to AI include access and accessibility, social justice, interpersonal relationships, skills and competences, cognitive and behavioral changes, human-computer interaction and the division of labor between humans and machines. Discourse within these fields takes place along ethical, organizational, social and computational dimensions. These dimensions are deeply interrelated. Addressing these connections and intersections is essential for a comprehensive understanding of AI systems.
The following list depicts some of the fields and aspects which are of interest for the workshop and can serve as starting points for discussions, but can be complemented by further aspects.
Ethical
● Diversity and inclusion (queer LGBT, minority, indigenous, disability)
● Social justice
● Environmental justice
● Access and use of copyrighted material
● Labor exploitation | Organizational
● Employment
● Job (In)security
● Future of work // New work
● AI recruitment tools
● Human-AI collaboration |
Social
● Care work
● Relationships (human, socio-technical)
● Assistive technologies and impact | Computational
● Mechanics
● Practices of training computational models
● Data quality
● Bias
● Cybersecurity |
Workshop Program
You can download the program of the workshop here.
Call for Contributions
You can download the program of the workshop here.
The transatlantic team of organizers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Tübingen includes Prof. Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, PD Dr. Jessica Heesen, Prof. Dr. Regina Ammicht Quinn, Jan-David Bühler, Jana Hecktor, Lisa Koeritz, Jimmy McKinnell, and Laura Schelenz.
