CAREER: The Development, Design, and Ethical Issues of Algorithmic Hiring Tools

职业：算法招聘工具的开发、设计和道德问题

• 批准号: 2403479
• 负责人: Ifeoma Ajunwa
• 金额: $ 52.69万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2403479&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Development; Design; Ethical; Issues

This project explores the development and implementation of Automated Hiring Platforms that use complex mathematical formulas and artificial intelligence when making choices about whom to hire for a job. This is an important issue because Automated Hiring Platforms have sometimes been found to be biased in their selection of employees from particular social groups and because they often lack transparency regarding the factors that go into their decisions. This project aims to understand the social and ethical dimensions of how Automated Hiring Platforms are created and how they function within the job market. This will be accomplished through surveying companies that use Automated Hiring Platforms about how they use them, observing how Automated Hiring Platforms are designed, and through interviews with those who design and develop them and with human resources professionals and job applicants. The project will also result in the creation of a new code of ethics for the design and use of Automated Hiring Platforms.Automated Hiring Platforms are among the most visible and consequential forms of artificial intelligence because of their importance for hiring decisions, because they can be systematically biased in their selection criteria, and because they often operate as 'black boxes' the design and inner workings of which are unknown. This project would advance recent research in Science and Technology Studies that has begun to consider the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence for human-computer interaction, social stratification, and the future of work. The main goals of this project are: 1) To provide better social scientific understanding of the human-computer interactions involved in using Automated Hiring Platforms and how they are designed; 2) To educate the public and organizations about the technical capabilities, limitations, and ethical issues arising from algorithmic hiring tools; and 3) To facilitate the development of ethical codes of conducts for designers, developers and consumers of algorithmic hiring tools. This will be accomplished via a mixed-methods research design involving surveys, interviews, observations, and documentary content analysis.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目探讨了自动化招聘平台的开发和实施，这些平台在选择谁雇用工作时使用复杂的数学公式和人工智能。这是一个重要的问题，因为有时发现自动化的招聘平台在他们从特定社会群体中的雇员中选择偏见，并且因为他们通常对决定的因素缺乏透明度。该项目旨在了解如何创建自动招聘平台以及它们在就业市场中的运作方式的社会和道德维度。这将通过调查公司来实现，这些公司使用自动化的招聘平台，了解它们如何使用它们，观察如何设计自动招聘平台，以及与设计和开发它们以及与人力资源专业人士和工作申请人的人的访谈。该项目还将导致创建新的道德规范，以设计和使用自动招聘平台。自动化的招聘平台是人工智能的最明显和结果形式，因为它们对雇用决策的重要性，因为它们可以是在他们的选择标准上有系统地偏见，并且因为它们通常是“黑匣子”的设计和内部工作，但其内部工作是未知的。该项目将推进科学技术研究的最新研究，该研究已开始考虑人工智能对人工智能互动，社会分层和工作未来的社会和道德意义。该项目的主要目标是：1）提供对使用自动招聘平台及其设计方式所涉及的人类计算机互动的更好的社会科学理解； 2）教育公众和组织有关算法招聘工具引起的技术能力，局限性和道德问题； 3）促进为算法招聘工具的设计师，开发人员和消费者的行为道德守则的制定。这将通过涉及调查，访谈，观察和纪录片内容分析的混合方法研究设计来实现。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准来通过评估来支持的。