Week 11: Psychology of Work in an Uncertain Future

Question 1

The list illustrates a picture of what?

-Digitisation
-Mobilisation
-Augumentation
-Disintermediation
-Automation

Answer 1

The unpredictable nature of future work

Question 2

The skills we need are dramatically different

Question 3

Combinatorial

Question 4

Deleterious impacts of AI, or rather it’s use

Answer 4

The distrust in companies genuinely cultivating an ethical usage of AI, combined with the slack definition of ‘ethical’ in a new world were consequences and actions are produced from machinery. It begs the question, ‘What happens when machines break the law?’

Question 5

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Answer 5

Focuses on defining the standard ethical usage of products.

Question 6

The Partnership on AI to benefit People and Society.

Answer 6

Corporation consortium. To frame the best practice for AI.

Question 7

National Science Foundation

Answer 7

Amazon funding research institution mentioned in the question.

Question 8

Biases in AI

Answer 8

The data input can reveal, whether intentional or implicit, data collected is skewed to represent a historical (or current) prejudice. They have the capacity to enhance implicit human thinking, and sometimes not for the better. A PR nightmare and legal trouble…a bias can become a global truth.

Question 9

Edelman’s 2019 Barometer global survey

Answer 9

Only 56% of the general public trust big business with AI.

Question 10

The three questions

Answer 10

Do we need laws?
Who is responsible for AI?
How do we safely implement rules and AI?

Question 11

Gallup poll

Answer 11

25% displayed trust in companies from 4 European companies.

Question 12

3 Principles of Trust around AI

Answer 12

Fairness
Trust
Accountability

Question 13

MIT Media Lad and Harvard University

Answer 13

$27 million initiative on ethics and governance of AI

Question 14

Stanford

Answer 14

100 year long study of AI

Question 15

Carneige Melon Uni

Answer 15

Establishes a centre to explore ethics and AI

Question 16

Center for the Government AI Report (2019)

Answer 16

82% of Americans believe AI should be carefully managed.

Question 17

Exclusion of Youth

Answer 17

Caused by digital technologies, the demand for different skills (not introduced through tertiary education), the need for an expansive skillset, not enough jobs for the tertiary educated.

Question 18

What is NEET

Answer 18

Not in employment, education or training. 15-24yr 267million unemployed

Question 19

Women and Men

Answer 19

Women are twice as likely to not score a job

Question 20

The Psychology of Working Framework (PWF)

Answer 20

A theory seeking to establish to human rights in the work place. Fulfillment of human needs, and the relation of work related issues with broader psychological, social and economical contexts.

Question 21

International Labour Organisation (2008) of Decent work

Answer 21

The right to decent work.

Question 22

Humanitarian work psychology

Answer 22

Occuring within i-o psychology, addresses concerns for work that emerge from social and economic disparity.

Question 23

PWF assumptions

Answer 23

1. Work functions as a source for wellbeing, and welfare.
2. Work shares a psychological space with other salient life domains. Maslows
3. Access to work is constrained by economical, political and social influences.
4. Working includes both efforts in the marketplace and caregiving contexts.
5. WHo work and want to work

Question 24

Duffy et al. 2016 PWF

Answer 24

Need for survival, social connection, and self-determination.

Answer 25

Structural factors, individual strengths, well-being and work outcomes.