Live event on April 30 9:00a - 10:00a PT
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Companies have integrated AI tools into every aspect of their businesses, including performance evaluations – but what does this mean for managers and employees?
Join us for a conversation between Dr. Rachel Korn and Dr. Asma Ghani about exploring how common AI tools provide a veneer of objectivity while exacerbating bias against historically excluded groups in the workplace. Despite claims that these tools can eliminate bias, our team found more severe bias patterns in AI generated content than manager-written evaluations. We’ll focus on the types of biases that pop up and solutions for both individual managers and organizations.
Suggested Audience: This webinar benefits those who are in positions to affect organizational policies and practices around performance evaluations or AI. It also speaks to anyone interested in how AI tools can interact with existing bias in the workplace.
Presenters: Rachel Korn, PhD (Equality Action Center) & Asma Ghani, PhD (University of California, San Francisco)
Rachel Korn, PhD, Equality Action Center
Rachel Korn is the Director of Research at Equality Action Center. Rachel is a social psychologist specializing in motivation and group dynamics, with a focus on evidence-based interventions. Rachel’s research under the Bias Interrupters initiative advances gender and racial equity in the workplace. Rachel partners closely with companies, industry organizations, and academic researchers to investigate how gender and racial bias impact employees in the workplace, and to develop effective solutions to mitigate the effects of bias. With her colleagues, Rachel has guided dozens of organizations through the process of examining their business systems to determine whether bias is playing a role in hiring, performance evaluations, access to opportunities, and informal workplace interactions, and has guided them in making impactful changes to ensure a level playing field for all employees.
Asma Ghani, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Asma Ghani is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Asma has a background in social psychology, with extensive training in experimental and survey research methods. Her work focuses on understanding how intersecting social identities and systems of oppression overlap to create inequity, as well as identifying effective strategies to address that inequity. Prior to her current role, Asma was the Lead Research Scientist at Equality Action Center, where she partnered with many organizations to examine racial and gender bias in the workplace and develop evidence-based interventions to address it.
