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Models Feel Hemmed in by AI

Cornell Chronicle
Using generative AI, fashion designers can use digital photos to adjust models’ features and even deploy fully digital avatars in place of humans. A team including an ILR School researcher has written a paper highlighting models’ challenges.
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Models Feel Hemmed in by AI

AI’s Impact on Professional Work to Be Examined by CAROW Yang-Tan Incubator Initiative

A new research team plans to explore AI’s impact on professional work through a new two-year pilot initiative housed at the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Yang-Tan WorkABILITY Incubator.
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AI’s Impact on Professional Work to Be Examined by CAROW Yang-Tan Incubator Initiative

Dean Alex Colvin to Help NYS Shape, Protect the AI Workforce

Cornell Chronicle
Alex Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, will serve on a blue-ribbon commission charged with developing recommendations on how New York state can protect workers’ economic security while harnessing the economic benefits of AI.
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Dean Alex Colvin to Help NYS Shape, Protect the AI Workforce

Worker Voice and AI in the Workplace

Researchers Virginia Doellgast, Ines Wagner, and Sean O’Brady found that works councils and unions in Germany and Norway were able to successfully negotiate the implementation of AI in their workplaces. Here we highlight some key findings unions, worker representatives, and policymakers can apply in other settings.
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Worker Voice and AI in the Workplace

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“In a world where AI and algorithms are increasingly determining whether workers keep or lose their job it is essential that we have human review of these decisions. NYC attempted to do that with this just cause deactivation law, and this ruling put this at risk.”
– Andrew Wolf, assistant professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work.
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Unions split over data centers, AI

Axios
“You aren’t going to get all the unions to agree. One loses, the other might gain,” says Art Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies, commenting on varied perspectives within labor unions on supporting AI.
Unions split over data centers, AI

The New Question for C-Suite Bosses: Who’s in Charge of AI?

Bloomberg
Due to AI’s impact on the design of jobs and organizations, HR leaders should play a strategic role in AI-related decision-making, comments Brad Bell, director of ILR’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies.
The New Question for C-Suite Bosses: Who’s in Charge of AI?

Cornell professors test AI teaching tools while protecting hands-on learning

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A course on AI and HR will use a robotic chatbot being built by Scott Seidenberger ’16, ILR postdoctoral associate in human resource studies and part of the Cornell AI Experimenters Faculty Fellows program.
Cornell professors test AI teaching tools while protecting hands-on learning