Human(e) Futures Colloquium - Bending the Machine: Labour and Resistance in the Cthulucene
Bending the Machine: Labour and Resistance in the Cthulucene
As the technologies called "artificial intelligence" encroach on every facet of higher education, the working conditions of academic staff (and the learning conditions of students) are becoming increasingly chaotic, exhausting, and isolating as a direct result of these incursions. This talk will highlight the obvious and less-obvious ways AI impacts academic working conditions, show how labour activism and mobilization can help us resist the harms of AI, and provide opportunities for attendees to share experiences and build solidarity.
Presenter: Kate Cushon (Archer Library)
Part of the HUMAN(E) FUTURES COLLOQUIUM
Thursdays, 2:00-3:15 pm, AH348
The Human(e) Futures Colloquium brings together critical voices from across the university (and beyond) in discussion around the technologies known as “generative artificial intelligence” (Gen AI). We are interested in exploring the human(e) questions, problems, and effects that emerge from the mass, largely uncritical, adoption of GenAI. These include effects on the university and how we learn and think, questions around how our labour is understood and valued, concerns about our planet and its future, effects on how we create and engage with art and creativity, and effects on how we live and think together in cultural, social, and political communities in sustainable and equitable ways.