Algorithmic hiring is the usage of tools based on Artificial intelligence (AI) for finding and selecting job candidates. As other applications of AI, it is vulnerable to perpetuate discrimination. Considering technological, legal, and ethical aspects, the EU-funded FINDHR project will facilitate the prevention, detection, and management of discrimination in algorithmic hiring and closely related areas involving human recommendation.
Sociological research on inequality has increasingly moved beyond the examination of inequalities as they
presumably exist to explore the generic narrative processes that perpetuate that inequality. Unfortunately,
however, this research remains concentrated on either individual or ideological grand narratives and
ignores the fact that the work narratives do, including the production and structuring of inequality, occurs
at multiple levels: cultural, structural, organizational, and personal, and never exclusively at just one of
these. In this study, we use Somali origin narratives to describe conceptually the ways in which narratives
produced at different personal and societal levels—cultural, institutional, organizational—dialectically
structure the generic processes that produce and perpetuate social inequality.
L’accueil des émotions et l‘identification des besoins pour soutenir
l’adhésion aux mesures sanitaires. Cet outil est construit à partir de ressources éprouvées développées par des médecins travaillant à une approche de communication empathique pour accompagner les patients souffrant de maladies graves et leurs aidants. Ces ressources sont établies à partir de principes clés communs rappelés brièvement en première partie de cet outil.
Wie stark lassen sich Lehrende durch Learning Analytics in ihrer Bewertung von Studierenden beeinflussen? Welche diskriminierenden aber auch ungleichheits-reduzierenden Effekte gehen von Algorithmen aus? In diesem Beitrag stellen die Autor*innen das Potential und die Gefahren von Learning Analytics vor und werten die Forschungsergebnisse eines Conjoint-Experiments aus.
While classifying AI systems used at work as high-risk is appropriate, however, the Proposed Regulation is far from being sufficient to protect workers adequately.
How European Union non-discrimination laws are interpreted and enforced vary by context and by state definitions of key terms, like “gender” or “religion.” Non-discrimination laws become even more…
Durch digitale Lernplattformen können vermehrt Daten über Lernende, Lerninhalte und die Lernsituation ausgewertet werden. Die algorithmische Analyse nennt sich Learning Analytics. Diese Analyse ermöglicht einen individuellen Lernprozess sowie eine Früherkennung von Lernschwächen. Learning Analytics bergen allerdings auch einige Nachteile.
I am an AI researcher, and I’m worried about some of the societal impacts that we’re already seeing. In particular, these 5 things scare me about AI: 1. Algorithms are often implemented without ways to address mistakes. 2. AI makes it easier to not feel responsible. 3. AI encodes & magnifies bias. 4. Optimizing metrics above all else leads to negative outcomes. 5. There is no accountability for big tech companies.
Oxford-based visual data management start-up, Zegami, has just launched a new tool for employers that will enable them to predict which employees are most likely to resign from their jobs.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and face recognition technology is being used for the first time in job interviews in the UK to identify the best candidates.
Today we released our second annual research report on the state of artificial intelligence. Since last year’s report, we’ve seen early stage AI technologies continue to filter into many everyday…
Predictive testing for Huntington’s disease was introduced in the late 1980s. It was offered reluctantly, however, because of the lack of treatment available for identified gene carriers and the potential for genetic discrimination—that is, the unfair and inappropriate treatment of a person or group on the basis of genetic information. In the linked cross sectional survey (doi:10.1136/bmj.b2175), Bombard and colleagues assess the nature and prevalence of genetic discrimination in a cohort of asymptomatic genetically tested and untested people at risk for Huntington’s disease.
The 2009 Equality Bill will, if enacted, make age based discrimination in the provision of health care and social care illegal for the first time in the United Kingdom. In a speech in 2008, the then health secretary, Alan Johnson, said, "Old age is the new middle age. Health and social care services need to adapt to the changing needs of today’s older people . . . to promote health in old age and help older people to maintain independence and quality of life."
A new campaign by disability rights activists to limit the right to die launches at Westminster on Thursday. The campaign - called Not Dead Yet UK Resistance - will be asking MPs to sign a charter in support of its aims. It says that disabled and terminally ill people should enjoy the same legal protection as everyone else. Those in favour of assisted suicide argue that opposing assisted suicide will condemn terminally-ill people to suffer needlessly. The Not Dead Yet UK's charter includes a commitment to oppose any changes to existing laws which state that assisting a patient to commit suicide is illegal.
Two children in Northern Ireland whose white mother was mistakenly impregnated with sperm from South Africa labelled “Caucasian (Cape Coloured)” during in vitro fertilisation have failed in a compensation claim at the High Court in Belfast. The children’s mother, who brought the case on their behalf, claimed that their quality of life was adversely affected because they looked markedly different from their parents and had quite different skin colour from each other. She said that they were subject to “abusive and derogatory comment and hurtful name calling from other children, causing emotional upset.” But Mr Justice Gillen ruled that they had not suffered any loss or damage for which the law could compensate them.
More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children. Now, decades on, one state is considering compensation.
Terminally ill patients who want to commit suicide should be able to receive medical help to die, a government adviser on care for the elderly has said. Martin Green, a dementia expert for the Department of Health, said patients who were too frail to take their own lives were being denied “choice” and “autonomy” because assisted suicide is illegal in the UK. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he urged ministers to review the law and suggested that a referendum or a free vote in Parliament should be called to settle policy on the issue. “If you’re going to give people ‘choice’, it should extend to whether or not they want to die,” he said.
Wer die richtigen Studierenden anlocken will, sollte viel Hirnschmalz in den Namen des Studiengangs investieren, meint unsere Kolumnistin Kathrin Passig. Zu weiche Bezeichnungen führen Ungeeignete womöglich aufs Glatteis, zu harte schrecken vielleicht unnötig ab.
Established under the Human Rights Commission Act 2000, the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) promotes and protects the human rights of everyone in Ireland by promoting awareness and understanding, reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of the law and by providing assistance for legal proceedings.
Maelezig Bigi. La reconnaissance en sociologie : des identites meprisees a la critique du travail..
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Être syndiqué et / ou disposer d’un mandat syndical, c’est bien souvent faire l’expérience de la répression et de la discrimination. Selon une étude du Ministère du Travail, 30% des élus syndiqués et 40% des délégués syndicaux considèrent que l’exercice de leur mandat représente un frein à leur carrière. En moyenne un délégué syndical gagne 10% de moins qu’un salarié non syndiqué ayant le même profil.
Par lettre en date du 19 octobre 2012, la ministre déléguée chargée des personnes âgées et de l'autonomie a saisi la CNCDH de la question des droits fondamentaux des personnes âgées aux plans national, européen et international.
(Assemblée plénière du 27 juin 2013)
Country Reports on the impact of the Racial Equality Directive: a survey of trade unions and employers - FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
The impact of the Racial Equality Directive - Views of trade unions and employers in the European Union (Strengthening the fundamental rights architecture in the EU IV) - FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
L’Observatoire de l’âgisme est un collectif, créé début 2008, rassemblant associations, médias, chercheurs, personnalités..., désireux de réfléchir aux discriminations liées à l’âge (âgisme) afin de mieux lutter contre.
elp end discrimination against families in Bastrop County. The U. S. Fair Housing Act provides protection for families. You cannot refuse a tenant or home buyer on the basis of family size. Please sign the petition being circulated at churches in Bastr