@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyBlotta #cyborgWorkers looking at Looking at AWS data centres, they find redundancy poverty utilised where there was labour disruptions. Strikes in Germany resulted in shifts in Poland.
I bring up in q&a that peole not only fire for political reasons but also hire 10ks of people in capitals at […]
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyone person went to a Google event earlier where G claimed the EU was lagginb because not enough AI, because women fear it, and Europe should help them get over that. Totally false on all counts; look at the economics here https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nk7ja_v2
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@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy#cyborgWorkers There are a lot of British at this event, weird how I've gotten used to having fewer of us around. But I learnt this morning: civl (french) law assumes workers have rights that need defending, common (UK) law assume employers have power & seek to limit that. Good and bad laws have […]
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyAnswer to my Q: The huge numbers of graduates with no jobs are part of the protests. There's no VC or startup incubators except in Bangalor -- you need resources -- and the people who don't find jobs usually are those without the social or cultural capital to create such a thing.
@j2bryson.bsky.socialthey'd still have to guess then who is using the magic. I'm actually at #cyborgWorkers now and the unions that are making progress are the ones realising all the old questions they asked about business processes are pretty much equally and identically applicable now.
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@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyGendered Infrastructural violence: masculine disposability and bodily
sacrifice in China’s platform economy
Zihao Zhang, School of Global Studies, U Sussex
#cyborgWorkers Super important about China's experience. Unfortunately the room was not entirely receptive / supportive of speaker the […]
@j2bryson.bsky.socialJust got told my #cyborgWorkers talk got moved from tomorrow morning to an hour from now, so I may not do a great job of taking notes this session :-S The room indeed has filled up.
Title: AI Is Not Like Us
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyJust got told my #cyborgWorkers talk got moved from tomorrow morning to an hour from now, so I may not do a great job of taking notes this session :-S The room indeed has filled up.
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gywe're in q&a now too much to say here, but Diletta Porcheddu tells us Italy has just passed legislation speicfying AI as a workplace stressor
There are members of the EP here warning about what protections people are trying to roll back in the #digitalOmnibus
I […]
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyŠobota #cyborgWorkers
AI literacy needs to go beyond tech skills, need a critical, holistic approach supporting empowerment, need to know baiscs of ai and its imapct onw ork and rights; how to question promises ... Literacy won't be enough for real ressistance, but will be a necessary step to […]
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lots pof positives; faster & easier can help with training, can imrove worker commuincation but these positives only come when workers are involved with the development.
The main concerns; dehumanistation; disappearance of jobs & tasks, fragmentation of jobs, workers […]
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyŠobota #cyborgWorkers
This framework from Marshall? helps move beyond techonlgoical determinism, gets past utopian/distopian framing.
Again: workers often don't even know whether let alone which AI to which they may be subjected, increaes fears. First person to mention the extension of labour […]
@j2bryson.bsky.socialI'm microblogging #cyborgWorkers #cyborgWorkers30 over on the platform I can edit (though sadly the edits don't come through here) so you should all go look at Mastodon because this is great
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyAida PDC: we must understand the EU is #deregulation "simplifying rules to help innovation" however this cuts down safety for workers. (I will say it hurts innovation too, but maybe not until tomorrow.) Topics of #cyborgworkers include governance of all kinds but especially BY workers.
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy#cyborgWorkers 3.0 I was invited by the Norweigians, and the Norwegian intro is suddenly very interesting – Norway has successfully regulated oil, sees data centers as oil refineries, know exactly what is happening with revenue outflows and understands when to nationalise things and how locals […]