Guest Lecture: AI bias in the employment sector

20. Jänner 2025, 11.00 Uhr Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, Lecture Room und Küche

Interface Cultures lädt zur Brunchlecture von Andreas Zingerle, Interface Cultures Absolvent.

Join us for a thought-provoking Brunch lecture as Andreas Zingerle delves into the territories of AI’s impact on the job market. We’ve all been sold the promise of AI tools as the ultimate equalizers, capable of stripping away biases and evaluating candidates based solely on skills and personality. But what happens when we try to ‘switch off’ identity, reducing it to a collection of quantifiable attributes? Andreas will challenge these assumptions drawing from artistic research conducted at EMAP fellowship at M-cult in Helsinki. The talk addresses different artistic research methods underlying the production of two recent artworks: “Posthuman recruiting,” which exposes the human side of AI Career Counselors, and “Ideal behavior”, revealing tricks and tools used to optimize performance for AI-driven employment. Can AI truly help to eliminate bias, or are we just trading one set of problems for another?

In the summer of 2024 M-cult producer and EMAP coordinator Mia Mäkelä interviewed Kairus about their artistic research on AI and recruitment: versorgerin.stwst.at/automated-recruitment

Andreas Zingerle is a media artist who received his PhD from the University of Art and Design Linz researching vigilante counter-movements and anti-fraud activism. He implements social engineering strategies that emerge in his research into interactive narratives, artistic installations, data visualizations and creative media competence training with a focus on Open Source tools and workflows.

www.andreaszingerle.com
www.kairus.org

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