Artificial intelligence and work: a critical review of recent research from the social sciences

JP Deranty, T Corbin - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
This review seeks to present a comprehensive picture of recent discussions in the social
sciences of the anticipated impact of AI on the world of work. Issues covered include …

Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet

P Brodie - Big Data & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, I take the case of data centers as a powerful tool and infrastructure of
multinational digital capitalism, analyzing the ways in which understanding these and other …

AI ethics as subordinated innovation network

J Steinhoff - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
AI ethics is proposed, by the Big Tech companies which lead AI research and development,
as the cure for diverse social problems posed by the commercialization of data-intensive …

Toward a political economy of synthetic data: A data-intensive capitalism that is not a surveillance capitalism?

J Steinhoff - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Surveillance of human subjects is how data-intensive companies obtain much of their data,
yet surveillance increasingly meets with social and regulatory resistance. Data-intensive …

Class composition, Labour's strategy and the politics of work

P Thompson, FH Pitts, J Ingold… - The Political …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article locates the emergence of new thinking on the left around work, age and assets
within the lineage of 'class composition'analysis arising from the autonomist movement in …

Generative artificial intelligence in business: towards a strategic human resource management framework

S Chowdhury, P Budhwar… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As businesses and society navigate the potentials of generative artificial intelligence (GAI),
the integration of these technologies introduces unique challenges and opportunities for …

The impacts of AI futurism: an unfiltered look at AI's true effects on the climate crisis

P Schütze - Ethics and Information Technology, 2024 - Springer
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of AI technologies on the climate
crisis beyond their mere resource consumption. To critically examine this impact, I introduce …

Not “what”, but “where is creativity?”: towards a relational-materialist approach to generative AI

C Celis Bueno, PS Chow, A Popowicz - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
The recent emergence of generative AI software as viable tools for use in the cultural and
creative industries has sparked debates about the potential for “creativity” to be automated …

Contemporary class composition analysis: The politics of production and the autonomy of the political

FH Pitts - Capital & Class, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The political and organisational routes opened up on the contemporary left following the
financial crisis have seen a revival of class composition analysis as a means of …

Critical AI studies meets critical political economy

P Verdegem - Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - elgaronline.com
Technological innovation has always been surrounded by hype. This is no different for
artificial intelligence (AI). In business and policy circles, AI is said to bring about massive …