Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | 3:30pm to 5pm
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70 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02142
A robot has never stolen a worker’s job! This claim may seem far-fetched, however, no technology—yes, not even an artificially intelligent robot—has socioeconomic agency or autonomy: What technologies such as AI and robotics can and cannot do, and what their a/effects and meanings are, is an all human rather than mechanical affair. This talk will introduce my research on the history and political economy of automation in the United States, and demonstrate that whatever impact automation had, has, or will have, must be investigated and understood in terms of not what automation does, but in terms of the individual, institutional, and structural forces that shape who can do what with automation, when, where, why, and how.
Presented by:
SALEM ELZWAY
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California Society of Fellows in the Humanities
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