Management professor’s paper wins top prize for insights on building equitable workplaces with AI technologies April 12, 2021•Reading Time: 2 minutes
David Ross, R. Perry Frankland Associate Professor of Management, and two co-authors won first place for their white paper at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton People Analytics Conference.
In the paper, Ross, with co-authors David R. Anderson of Villanova University and Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir of the University of Maryland, explain how bias can be embedded in people analytics that uses AI, despite the AI itself being in principle free of bias. The authors also highlight best practices for human resource professionals and how to build a bias-aware analytical process that can prevent machine learning biases from creeping into HR practices.