“One thing is clear, there is no … perpetual revenue stream in solving our problems, like there is in perpetuating and intensifying them.”—Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Jardar Østbø, and Thomas Raymen

First, our latest piece in Big Data & Society 'A typology of artificial intelligence data work' presents a new framework for understanding different types of AI data work and how they fit within AI production networks journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Next, 'The Poverty of Ethical AI', presents a case study based on fieldwork conducted at Sama, a data annotation company with headquarters in San Francisco and outsourced centres in Kenya and Uganda and reveals the human costs of purportedly ‘ethical AI’ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Third, 'Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power' sketches the broader theoretical framework of how the entire value chain of AI is structured by a logic of coloniality, operating through its inputs, algorithms and biased outputs. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Check out our forthcoming edited volume! amazon.co.uk/Compliance-Def…

CFP: Special Issue of JEA 8(2) on Algorithmic Governance at Work - Interrogating Labour Power and Contemporary Epistemologies of Social Control - qualitative, in particular ethnographic, and theoretical contributions welcome! algorithmic-governance.com/post/cfp-speci…

CFP: Special Issue of JEA 8(2) on Algorithmic Governance at Work - Interrogating Labour Power and Contemporary Epistemologies of Social Control algorithmic-governance.com/post/cfp-speci… Futures of Work Virginia Eubanks Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK) FEPS Gerard Oosterwijk ILO Research Lauren Kate Kelly

Excited to share with you the UK cover for our new book Feeding the Machine with Callum Cant and Mark Graham 🌃✨ Stephen Fry says: "Feeding the Machine may just be the most important book to be written in the current fever of AI publishing" UK pub date: 18 July 2024 Preorder now

Register now for 'The rise of algorithmic management, from platform economy to traditional sectors'! 💻 With: 🔺Bonn Juego 🔺Gerard Oosterwijk 🔺Kristoffer Lind Glavind 🔺Tereza Østbø Kuldova Click the link below!⤵️ bit.ly/AlgorithmicWeb…

2024 - Amazon ditches self-checkout after revelations that alleged "cashier-less" automated system actually needs "1,000 real people in India scanning the camera feeds to ensure accurate checkouts". engadget.com/amazon-just-wa… #waitingforrobots

An incredibly detailed thread of M.J. Crockett and my paper on epistemic risks of AI in science, and a great compliment to this week's Data Fix podcast: shows.acast.com/63997541ed122a…

🚨 Before my mat leave (Aug) I’m looking for candidates who’d like to develop an ESRC NINE DTP PhD proposal on either of the following topics: 1. Freeports & SEZs as spaces of criminogenic harm. 2. Surviving the cashless society. 📧 for more info. Please share!

📢 76% of Nordic union workers are negatively impacted by algorithmic management (AM)! The new policy study "Computer in command" surveyed over 6,000 workers on the consequences of AM in Denmark Finland Sweden & Norway 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇴 Read the study ⤵️ 📕bit.ly/ComputerInComm…

Gerard Oosterwijk Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard Jenny Wrangborg Hilde Nagell Jere Immonen Tænketanken Cevea Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd (AE) Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Nordic Countries Tankesmedjan Tiden Tankesmien Agenda However, adverse consequences are not unavoidable! 👷‍♀️High levels of employee influence & transparency of company decisions significantly reduce the negative effects of AM, ensuring workers’ well-being bit.ly/ComputerInComm…

My interview The Times and The Sunday Times Mark Sellman on emotion AI "most people are not criminals, we are normalising that everyone is surveilled by default, eroding the idea that people are innocent until proven guilty using tech that is dodgy, unreliable & highly biased thetimes.com/uk/technology-…

Thrive, a corporate health vendor that focuses on monitoring and messing with the bodies+minds of call center workers to make them work harder without destroying their ability to work, teams up with OpenAI to 'transform healthcare' via 'AI-driven personalized behavior change'.