{"product_id":"9781805260981","title":"The Algorithm : How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world practices, journalist Hilke Schellmann reveals the secret rise of AI in the world of work. Testing them herself, she discovers that many algorithms making these high-stakes calculations do more harm than good, and traces their origins to troubling pseudoscientific ideas about people's `true' essence.   Interviewing experts, developers and ordinary workers,�The Algorithm offers fascinating and alarming truths. From software analysing interviewees' facial expressions and tone of voice, to video games assessing their performance, to `personality profiles' built from candidates' social media, almost all major employers use AI in recruitment. Programmes track their staff's activity, group dynamics and physical health, identifying who is productive, a bully, worth long-term investment, or likely to quit. But can we trust them?In a world of severe job insecurity, workplace algorithms are on the brink of dominating or even threatening us-if we don't fight back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45466305626333,"sku":"9781805260981","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781805260981.jpg?v=1720109326","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781805260981","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}