Activity

I wrote that productivity for us goes well beyond documents, spreadsheets, and slides. We will obsess over helping people who are swimming in a growing sea of devices, apps, data, and social networks. We will build software to be more predictive, personal, and helpful. We will think about customers…

Researchers in this area have talked about the need to move beyond explainability (seeking explanations for how an algorithm made a decision) to recourse (giving those impacted concrete actions they could take to change the outcome) and to move beyond transparency (insight to how an algorithm works…

[...] we should ask who negotiates the terms of these collaborations, and if teachers and factory workers will have any choice but to accept them. In reality automation is largely presented to workers as an ultimatum, a forced collaboration driven by a vision of efficiency defined by scale and stat…

[...] We can and must act now to prevent that from happening -- and to redirect AI for the good of the many, not just the few.

These sorts of activities, however necessary they may be for the reproduction of capitalist class relations, are always the last to be rationalized, that is, made more efficient, and less onerous, by means of labor-saving innovations. I have already discussed in detail the reasons for this. In some…