MC
Raghida Abdallah Yassine
Adelphi U., United States
Jim Hazy
Adelphi U., United States
Gita Surie
Adelphi U., United States
Charles BAKER
Adelphi U.
Mohammad Amirhosseini
U. of East London, United Kingdom
This symposium addresses the challenge in advances in technology like generative AI and pandemic effects that have reshaped workplace dynamics and have made the future of work difficult to imagine by exploring complementary sides of these dynamics. It emphasizes the interplay of the dynamics between humans and technology, particularly focusing on the economic value of human interactions and the ethical implications of AI and technology use. Firstly, it explores ways that the economic value that is created by human interactions with other humans and with intelligent machines, can be measured and quantified. Secondly, it explores examples of how Generative AI and other technology platforms are trained by and used by humans in what arguably can be an exploitation of uninformed human participants who transfer their value to the owners of physical and financial capital. This echoes with the need to comprehend the personal development implications of AI in the workplace and how it affects employees, especially within the framework of post-COVID changes in personal values and ambitions. Thirdly, it discusses leveraging human and social capital to create financial value in the form of intellectual property, exploring the value of choice and risk diversification. It specifically highlights AI-enabled technology platforms that gather human interaction data thus providing insights and supporting individual professional development, thereby making the previously intangible “missing” information available and actionable.
Author: Raghida Abdallah Yassine – Adelphi U.
Author: Jim Hazy – Adelphi U.
Author: Mohammad Amirhosseini – U. of East London