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AI Cyber Lunch: Ifeoma Ajunwa on "The Quantified Worker"

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Ifeoma Ajunwa, Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law and an adjunct Associate Professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business. Drawing from her forthcoming book, The Quantified Worker, Ajunwa will discuss the role of technology in the workplace and its effects on management practices as moderated by employment law.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Date: Time: - Location: Room 434 A-B
Courtesy of Ifeoma Ajunwa

Speaker

Speaker

Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., Ph.D. is an award-winning tenured law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law and an adjunct Associate Professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business where she is a Rethinc. lab Fellow. She is also the Founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program at UNC Law and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University since 2017. Professor Ajunwa was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Lagos, Nigeria (2021-2022). She was a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and a 2018 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).  She is also a certified Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) expert and consultant since 2020. Dr. Ajunwa’s research interests are at the intersection of law and technology with a particular focus on  the ethical governance of workplace technologies. Her research focus is also on diversity and inclusion in the labor market and the workplace. Dr. Ajunwa’s forthcoming book, The Quantified Worker, which examines the role of technology in the workplace and its effects on management practices as moderated by employment law will be published by Cambridge University Press in March 2023. Dr. Ajunwa is a Founding Board Member of the Labor Tech Research Network which is an international group of scholars committed to the research of the ethics of AI used in the workplace and for labor. She has previously served as a Board member for the Institute for Africa Development (IAD). Dr. Ajunwa has been invited to testify before the U.S. Congress (Committee on  Education and Labor), governmental agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC), and has served as a keynote speaker at several national and international conferences.  Dr. Ajunwa is currently a Contributor for Forbes. Her writing  has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the Harvard Business Review, among others. She is on twitter @iajunwa.