Mercoledì 20 settembre alle ore 14.00 in Aula 3 di facoltà la Prof.ssa Tahira Probst della Washington State University (USA), Visiting presso il nostro Dipartimento (Hosting Prof.ssa Laura Petitta), terrà un seminario dal titolo "Perils and Promise: Psychosocial Reactions to NextGen Technology". 

info: laura.petitta@uniroma1.it

ABSTRACT

Perils and Promise: Psychosocial Reactions to NextGen Technology

Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world of work is undergoing momentous change. Nearly half of all occupations (including those in production, transportation, extraction, and agriculture) are ripe for automation within the next two decades. With the launch of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence apps, organizations are increasingly using these tools to perform work tasks that previously required a human to complete. The growing gig economy relies heavily on platform work managed by computer-driven algorithms that monitor workers, evaluate productivity, and make employment-related decisions, often without the intervention of any human agents. Collectively, these Future of Work trends have been termed STARA (Smart Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Algorithms). This seminar will discuss STARA trends and present findings from experimental and survey studies, including:
 

• the potential impact of these Future of Work trends on economic stressors, health, well-being and performance
•  factors influencing optimal design of human-robot interactions
• the moderating influence of individual differences and organizational variables on psychosocial
• reactions to STARA, and
• future research directions

Dr. Tahira M. Probst is a Professor of Psychology at Washington State University (USA) where she directs the Coalition for Healthy and Equitable Workplaces lab. Her research focuses on the health, safety and performance-related outcomes of economic stressors (including job insecurity, financial strain, and underemployment), as well as multilevel contextual variables that influence these relationships. She is Associate Director of the NRT-LEAD NextGen Robotics training program at WSU, funded by a 3 million USD grant from the National Science Foundation to incorporate applied psychology and business lenses to engineering training in advanced robotics and autonomous systems. She has published over 170 journal articles and book chapters on stress and health-related topics. She is past Editor of Stress & Health and sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Occupational Health Science, Military Psychology, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and the Journal of Business and Psychology.