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Artificial intelligence, work and society

AI is permeating a wide range of areas and it is bound to transform work and society. This series addresses possibilities and challenges. Above all it asks what needs to be done politically in order to shape this transformation for the sake of the common good.

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AI and work

AI has conjured up a dystopia of robots displacing human workers from employment. Some have predicted very large-scale job substitution but others question whether such a predetermined outcome can be envisaged: whether jobs are lost and how they are changed depends on whether workers are involved in the decisions that are made. Similar concerns apply to issues of recruitment and monitoring of workers: will AI data serve a ‘surveillance capitalism’ or could it assist workers in the performance of their jobs if they have more power to influence the outcome?

algorithmic Algorithmic control German Bender
artificial intelligence at work When machines think for us: consequences for work and place Judith Clifton, Amy Glasmeier and Mia Gray
robots, digitalisation Robots won’t make us redundant Lars Klingbeil and Henning Meyer
training, works councils Into a new era of work Daniela Kolbe
good work Using AI in the office for good work Markus Hoppe and Nadine Müller
Made in Africa: African digital labour in the value chains of AI Mark Graham and Mohammad Amir Anwar
machine learning Capitalism’s mirror stage: artificial intelligence and the quantified worker Phoebe Moore
artificial intelligence and work Designing AI tools to benefit workers Florian Butollo
Controlling the effects of AI on work and inequality Christian Kellermann and Mareike Winkler

 

AI and society

AI raises wider questions about the society in which we live and that of the future. Market-research institutes foresee huge efficiency gains, but are these credible and, if so, how will such gains be distributed? Feminists and anti-racists have expressed concern that the algorithms on which AI depends unconsciously embed the social prejudices of their human authors. Issues of privacy and civil liberty surround the possession and control of the data mined by AI. How education must change so that citizens can feel empowered rather than alienated by AI is also at stake—as is the ever-present issue of where AI fits in meeting the existential challenge of climate change and biodiversity loss.

human-centric AI AI: those are citizens marching, not robots Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
explainable AI, XAI Explaining artificial intelligence in human-centred terms Martin Schüßler
AI and healthcare Artificial intelligence, healthcare and the pandemic Selin Sayek Böke
common good, sustainable AI A European way towards sustainable AI Reinhard Messerschmidt and Stefan Ullrich
machine learning, algorithms Machine learning should increase human possibilities Elena Esposito

This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) under grant no. 16DII111 (‘Deutsches Internet-Institut’) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

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