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Gig Economy workers want access to company algorithms for fair practices

HR Digest

The key is the Kafkaesque element of what it means to have an algorithm as your boss,” said Eva Blum-Dumontet, senior researcher at advocacy group Privacy International and co-author of a new report ‘Managed by Bots’, written with WIE. She finds the industry itself resistant and hostile to any changes in the workings.

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Trust the Process

Chris Brady

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How Automation Will Change Work, Purpose, and Meaning

Harvard Business Review

eva bee/Getty Images. Most of us will remain focused for decades to come on activities of physical or financial production, but as technology provides services and goods at ever-lower cost, human beings will be compelled to discover new roles — roles that aren’t necessarily tied to how we conceive of work today.

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This Airbus Makes Pilots Smarter

Harvard Business Review

But look under the hood and you will find an array of sensors and proprietary technology developed by GE that make their pilots smarter. There are dozens of other airlines around the world already using the system, including Air New Zealand, China Airlines, WestJet, and EVA Air. But the smarts go beyond fuel savings.

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Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher

Harvard Business Review

Andy, of course, had already shown his interest in academia much earlier by writing a widely used textbook on semiconductor technology and teaching that subject at Berkeley. So we decided to develop a new elective MBA course called “Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry.”

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., IBM is leading the integration of AI in industry. AI is not the be-all and end-all; it’s an embedded technology.

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James Bond, Dunder Mifflin, and the Future of Product Placement

Harvard Business Review

Research by Eva A. The first is interactive product placement, which is technology-driven and leverages the consumer desire for immediacy and relevance while watching a TV show. Video technology now allows certain objects, such as products, to be “clickable” within the video. Audiences are increasingly skeptical.

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