AI, migration and labor markets
»The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society is organizing its Fifth Annual Conference on the subject of ‘AI, Big Data, Social Media, and People on the Move’. The conference focuses on topics that arise from artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data deployed on and used by ‘people on the move’. We understand the term ‘people on the move’ in a broad sense: individuals and groups who – by volition or necessity – are changing their lives and/or their structural position in societies. This encompasses the role of automated systems or AI in different forms of geographical and social change, including migration and labour mobility, algorithmic uses of ̒ location’, as well as discourses of and about people on the move.«
Manuela Bojadžijev is part of the session on ›AI, migration and labor markets‹:
»Migrant workers represent a large portion of workers who process AI data sets. They also work extensively on online labor platforms, and are thus among those workers who are particularly affected by approaches to algorithmic management on platforms. In this session, we will focus in particular on working conditions in this field and on the role of migrant workers.«
Session Chair: Martin Krzywdzinski (Weizenbaum Institute)
Manuela Bojadzijev (Humboldt University) “Between presence and absence: labor and migration in AI”
Callum Cant, Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute) “Fair AI platform work”
Sarrah Kassem (University of Tübingen): “Global labor behind the digital interface: Alienation and agency of MTurk workers”