Big Picture
- New York City’s Bold, Flawed Attempt to Make Algorithms Accountable. ““What we’re finding is that the world of algorithms is one ugly wormhole. In insulating algorithms and their creators from public scrutiny, rather than responding to civic concerns about bias and discrimination, the existing system propagates the myth that those algorithms are objective and fair. There’s no reason to believe either.”
- The Rise of Skeptical Reading. Unlike technology, culture changes slowly. But, when it changes, it changes for a long time. We are moving into an era where everyone has to consume multiple data sources in order to make sense. It has significant implications for communicationg with our audiences.
HR’s View
- Design for How People Think. Don Norman presents the case against eliminating bias. Many ‘AI’ tools in HRTech claim to minimize or eliminate bias in HR decision making. In this 3 minute video, Norman argues that biases are the essence of the strength of human decision makers. That technology should be designed to take advantage of our biases. That our biases work for us.
Execution
- Trusted Digital Identity — Implementation Approaches. A quick introduction to the complexities of developing trusted digital identities in the workforce.
- A Response to Trusted Digital Identity – Implementation Approaches. Raises the notion of identity supply chains.
Quote of the Week
“There is a quiet revolution in the making. It’s about how people make sense of the news. Barely perceptible amidst the loudness of commentary about bots, trolls, fake news, echo chambers, filter bubbles, confirmation bias, artificial intelligence, and so on is the realization that readers, listeners, viewers, and users are becoming ever more skeptical about the information they encounter in the news and social media. And that’s a good thing. Skepticism is a necessary, albeit not sufficient, condition for the emergence of sustainable solutions regarding a potential state of misinformation marking contemporary politics and culture.” – from The Rise of Skeptical Reading
About
Curate means a variety of things: from the work of vicar entrusted with the care of souls to that of an exhibit designer responsible for clarity and meaning. At the core, it means something about the importance of empathy in organization. HRIntelligencer is an update on the comings and goings in the Human Resource experiment with Artificial Intelligence, Digital Employees, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Big Data and all of that stuff. We present a few critical links with some explanation. The goal is to give you a way to surf the rapidly evolving field without drowning in information. We offer a timeless curation of the intersection of HR and the machines that serve it. We curate the emergence of Machine Led Decision Making in HR.
