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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?

robot arm Democracy must set the standardClaes-Mikael Ståhl
algorithmic management,platform work,artificial intelligence,codetermination Algorithmic management—a codetermination challengeGerard Rinse Oosterwijk
robots,care,carebots,human,ageing Robots in social care: the human touch at riskSamantha Howe and Karol Florek
AI,artificial intelligence,AFL-CIO,Microsoft,workers AFL-CIO/Microsoft AI partnership: model to copy?Philip Freeman
AI,artificial intelligence,AI Act AI, platforms and (human) workers’ rightsGerard Rinse Oosterwijk
Social Europe banner Introducing AI at work: workers must be involvedIsabelle Barthès and Patricia Velicu
AI,artificial intelligence,ChatGPT,jobs Why AI might not take your job, just yetGerman Bender
AI,artificial intelligence,human capital,equality AI threatens to increase inequalityPer Molander
AI regulation,artificial intelligence,GDPR Artificial intelligence: filling the gapsAida Ponce Del Castillo
Social Europe banner Artificial intelligence and workers’ rightsValerio De Stefano and Antonio Aloisi
Social Europe banner Algorithmic controlGerman Bender
Social Europe banner When machines think for us: consequences for work and placeJudith Clifton, Amy Glasmeier and Mia Gray
Social Europe banner Robots won’t make us redundantLars Klingbeil and Henning Meyer
Social Europe banner Using AI in the office for good workMarkus Hoppe and Nadine Müller
Social Europe banner Into a new era of workDaniela Kolbe

 

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.

open source,sharing,information,innovation Why organisations must embrace ‘open source’Aurelie Jean, Guillaume Sibout, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
Social Europe banner The AI Act: deregulation in disguiseAida Ponce Del Castillo
Social Europe banner Big Tech lobbying is derailing the AI ActBram Vranken
generative AI,ChatGPT,OpenAI Generative AI needs more than a light touchAntonio Aloisi and Valerio De Stefano
Social Europe banner The promise and peril of generative AIDiane Coyle
AI,artificial intelligence,ChatGPT The global AI race—it’s time to slow downGerman Bender
Social Europe banner AI: those are citizens marching, not robotsMiapetra Kumpula-Natri
Social Europe banner Explaining artificial intelligence in human-centred termsMartin Schüßler
Social Europe banner Artificial intelligence, healthcare and the pandemicSelin Sayek-Böke
Social Europe banner A European way towards sustainable AIReinhard Messerschmidt and Stefan Ullrich
Social Europe banner Machine learning should increase human possibilitiesElena 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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