On May 15, 2020, the Ethics of AI Lab at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto hosted an online international and interdisciplinary conference, spanning nine timezones, on The Future of Work in the Age of Automation and AI. The conference explored 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.
The conference papers will be published here in July, along with additional commentaries. In the meantime, considering the timeliness of the subject matter (particularly in light of its implications for the current COVID-19 crisis), links to the video recording of the conference (with time stamps indicating the start of each presentation) appear below.
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), Self-making and Game-making in the Future of Work
- video ➡︎ 0:00:34
- Veena Dubal (UC Hastings, Law), The Time Politics of Digital Piecework
- video ➡︎ 0:20:34
II. AI Bosses and Autonomy
- Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford, Law), When Your Boss Comes Home: Three Fault Lines for the Future of Work in the Age of Automation, AI, and COVID-19
- video ➡︎ 1:03:43
- Valerio de Stefano (Leuven, Law), Algorithmic Bosses and How to Tame Them
- video ➡︎ 1:20:57
III. The Value and Valorization of Work
- Cynthia Estlund (NYU, Law), Why Work Is a Social Good and Freedom Is Overrated
- video ➡︎ 1:56:53
- Igor Shoikhedbrod (U of T C4E, Politics), Revaluing and Re-Politicizing the Future of Work in the Age of Automation and AI
- video ➡︎ 2:14:35
