This symposium is based on an online international and interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Ethics of AI Lab at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, on May 15, 2020. It explores the implications and complications that automation and AI have introduced into the work-leisure matrix, by considering possible futures of work that have been framed in terms of ideas and proposals such as post-work, the distribution of care-work, and the implementation of a universal basic income.

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The Future of Work in the Age of Automation and AI

I. AI, Autonomy, and the Future of Everyday Work

• Aleena Chia (Simon Fraser, Communication), Diagrams of Flexibility in the Future of Work [2020 C4eJ 49]
  • video ➡︎ 0:00:34 (Self-making and Game-making in the Future of Work)
• V.B. Dubal (UC Hastings, Law), The Time Politics of Home-Based Digital Piecework [2020 C4eJ 50]
  • video ➡︎ 0:20:34

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II. AI Bosses and Autonomy

• Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford, Law), When Your Boss Comes Home [2020 C4eJ 51]
  • video ➡︎ 1:03:43
• Valerio de Stefano (Leuven, Law), Algorithmic Bosses and How to Tame Them [2020 C4eJ 52]
  • video ➡︎ 1:20:57

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III. The Value and Valorization of Work

• Cynthia Estlund (NYU, Law), Why Work Is a Social Good and Freedom Is Overrated [2020 C4eJ 53]
  • video ➡︎ 1:56:53
• Igor Shoikhedbrod (UofT Centre for Ethics, Politics), Revaluing and Re-Politicizing Work in the Age of Automation and AI [2020 C4eJ 54]
  • video ➡︎ 2:14:35

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IV. Commentaries

• John Enman-Beech (UofT, Law). Two Contractual Futures of Work [2020 C4eJ 55]
• Julian Posada (UofT iSchool), The Future of Work is Here: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Artificial Intelligence and Labour [2020 C4eJ 56]
• Igor Shoikhedbrod (UofT Centre for Ethics, Politics), Interrogating A World Without Work [2020 C4eJ 57]