Artificial Intelligence
AI is not a disembodied technology. It is best understood as a form of condensed human intelligence, which must be produced through intensive labour processes (from data annotation to chip manufacture) that are embedded within production networks that span the globe.
The use of AI in the workplace is accelerating, and its effects are becoming clear. Work intensification and surveillance are huge risks, and current approaches to technological development give workers very few protections.
Book
Muldoon, J, Graham M, and Cant C. Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI. Canongate Books, 2024.
Journal articles
Muldoon J, Cant C, Wu B, and Graham M (2024) ‘A Typology of Artificial Intelligence Data Work’. Big Data & Society. DOI: 10.1177/20539517241232632.
Muldoon J, Cant C, Graham M, and Ustek Spilda F. (2023) The Poverty of Ethical AI: Impact Sourcing and AI Supply Chains. AI & SOCIETY. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01824-9.
Cole M, Cant C, Ustek Spilda F, et al. (2022) Politics by Automatic Means? A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Ethics at Work. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. DOI: 10.3389/frai.2022.869114.
Reports
Ustek Spilda, F, Brittain L, Cant C, Cole M, Alyanak O, Mozzachiodi R, and Graham M. ‘Fairwork Amazon Report: Transformation of the Warehouse Sector through AI’. Paris: Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, 2024. https://fair.work/en/fw/publications/amazon-report-2024/.
Cant C, Ustek Spilda F, Britain L, Graham M (2023). Fairwork AI ratings 2023: The workers behind AI at Sama. Oxford: Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. Available at: https://fair.work/en/fw/publications/fairwork-ai-ratings-2023-the-workers-behind-ai-at-sama/
Cant C, Cole M, Ustek Spilda F, et al. (2022) AI for Fair Work. Paris: Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. Available at: https://www.gpai.ai/projects/future-of-work/AI-for-fair-work-report.pdf.
Policy briefings
Cant C, Muldoon J, Ustek Spilda F, et al. (2022) Work, Regulation, and AI Governance in the UK. Oxford: Fairwork. Available at: https://fair.work/en/fw/publications/fairwork-policy-brief-work-regulation-and-ai-governance-in-the-uk/ (accessed 30 November 2022).
