Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital ( papers.ssrn.com )
Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems....
Paper: Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law ( papers.ssrn.com )
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but really, what scientist wouldn't want an autocomplete can opener as their manager ( papers.ssrn.com )
Return-to-Office Mandates ( papers.ssrn.com )
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Return to Office Mandates Paper from University of Pittsburgh ( papers.ssrn.com )
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Close the Gates to an Inhuman Future: How and why we should choose to not develop superhuman general-purpose AI - Anthony Aguirre, Future of Life Institute. ( papers.ssrn.com )
Gender Bias in Perceived Quality. An Experiment with Elite Soccer Performance ( papers.ssrn.com )
We perform an experiment showing participants video clips of elite female and male soccer players. In the control group, participants evaluated normal videos where the gender of the players was clear to see. In the treatment group, participants evaluated the same videos but with gender obscured by blurring. We find that...
Surveilling the Gamers: Analysis of in-game data gathering ( papers.ssrn.com )
Crazy to think that this stuff can potentially end up tied to your identity and used for advertising, or even (in theory) other purposes like credit worthiness or a job suitability assessment....
TIL that a 2019 Union College study found that joining a fraternity in college lowered a student’s GPA by 0.25 points, but also increased their future income by 36%. ( papers.ssrn.com )
We exploit changes in the residential and social environment on campus to identify the economic and academic consequences of fraternity membership at a small No
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market ( papers.ssrn.com )
Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (pre-print) ( papers.ssrn.com )
Rubbing Shoulders: Class Segregation in Daily Activities ( papers.ssrn.com )
Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy ( papers.ssrn.com )
Democratic backsliding is a growing concern globally. This paper contributes to the discussion by documenting irregular patterns in 2019 general election in...