Algorithmic Work: Power Structures and Working Conditions Digitalization: Feminist & Decolonial
Date of the event
Dienstag, 29 Oktober 2024
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06:00 pm – 07:30 pm
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Zoom
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Sana Ahmad will speak about the specific impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the world of work. Ahmad will highlight the challenges and opportunities that AI brings to the workplace, focusing on power asymmetries and working conditions of data workers. The presentation will particularly concentrate on the ethical and social implications of AI, while also addressing the role of algorithmic systems in shaping working conditions. Ahmad will outline what is necessary to develop ethical AI that puts workers at the center. She will demonstrate the importance of making algorithmic systems transparent and promoting the involvement of affected workers in the development and application of these technologies.
Sana Ahmad is a researcher at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg and a visiting researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). She received her doctorate from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin, with her dissertation examining power asymmetries between platform companies and Indian subcontractors. Ahmad's research focuses on working conditions in content moderation and the global work processes associated with it. Her current projects include studying migration and crowdwork processes in Germany, as well as analyzing workplace automation processes from a global perspective. In addition to her research, she is co-founder and co-host of the intersectional feminist podcast Purple Code, which deals with digital technologies from a female and queer perspective.
The series Digitalization: Feminist & Decolonial opens up critical perspectives on power in digital transformation and transformation processes, and asks, among other things, about their effects on marginalized communities.
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