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Outsourcing Artificial Intelligence: Responding to the Reassertion of the Human Element into Automation

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Mathew Iantorno,

Olivia Doggett,

Priyank Chandra,

Julie Yujie Chen,

Rosemary Steup,

Vera Khovanskaya,

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CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503720

Published: 28 April 2022 Publication History

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Science fiction imaginaries and Silicon Valley innovators have long envisioned a workerless future. However, this industrial ambition has often outpaced technological realities in robotics and artificial intelligence, leading to a reassertion of human skills to cover untenable gaps in autonomous systems. This one-day workshop will invite discussion on this recent retrograde trend toward precarious (and often concealed) human labour across such domains as agriculture, transportation, and caregiving through paper presentations and design activities. Throughout, we will ask how this phenomenon speaks to engineering and design challenges and, subsequently, encourage participants to ideate new cybernetic arrangements that centre the agency and well-being of essential workers.

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CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Woodruff AShelby RKelley PRousso-Schindler SSmith-Loud JWilcox L(2024)How Knowledge Workers Think Generative AI Will (Not) Transform Their IndustriesProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642700(1-26)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642700
Boeva YBerger ABischof ADoggett OHeuer HJarke JTreusch PSøraa RTacheva ZVoigt M(2023)Behind the Scenes of Automation: Ghostly Care-Work, Maintenance, and InterferencesExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3573830(1-5)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3573830

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