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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.
Zoe West speaks at an even during Fashion Week. Photo Credit: Jaka Vinsek and Briana Elledge
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.
Alexander James Colvin
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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AI job loss forecasts loom as unions push for protections

Detroit News
“There's not as much resistance to AI as you might expect, so long as they're willing to work with people instead of replacing people,” says Art Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies, about typical union-based attitudes toward artificial intelligence in the workplace.
AI job loss forecasts loom as unions push for protections

China's courts side with workers displaced by AI, but job anxiety persists

NPR
ILR Professor Eli Friedman comments on the vulnerability of workers in China facing displacement by AI.
China's courts side with workers displaced by AI, but job anxiety persists

AI Is Giving Your HR Department an Existential Crisis

Bloomberg
“Employees want to know that there’s a trusted person that has expertise that they can go to and address issues, and they’re never going to feel fully confident in having a bot do it,” says JR Keller, ILR associate professor, discussing the value of human-powered HR departments.
AI Is Giving Your HR Department an Existential Crisis