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_b.C2913 2025
100 1 _aCasilli, Antonio A.,
_d1972-
_eauthor.
240 1 0 _lEnglish
_s(Brown)
245 1 0 _aWaiting for robots :
_bthe hired hands of automation /
_cAntonio A. Casilli ; translated by Saskia Brown ; with a foreword by Sarah T. Roberts.
264 1 _aChicago ;
_aLondon :
_bThe University of Chicago Press,
_c©2025
300 _a309 pages
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aFrance Chicago collection
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- What automation? Will humans replace robots? ; What's in a digital platform? -- Three types of digital labor. On-demand digital labor ; Microwork ; Social media labor -- The horizons of digital labor. Work outside work ; How do we classify digital labor? ; Subjectivity at work, globalization, and automation -- Conclusion: what is to be done?
520 _a"Artificial Intelligence fuels both panic and enthusiasm. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. Users complain when these technologies don't obey; we worry about their influence on our choices and our livelihoods; and we yearn for their convenience. We see ourselves reflected in them, and we treat them as something entirely new. However unwillingly, when we overestimate the performance of these tools, we fail to recognize how our fellow humans contribute to their efficiency. In this bracing and powerful book, sociologist and award-winning author Antonio Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how AI continues to exploit human labor, including yours. He connects the diverse activities of today's tech laborers: platform laborers, like Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts; remote workers, performing atomized tasks like data entry on Amazon Mechanical Turk; and you, as you evaluate text or images to show you're not a robot, react to Facebook posts, or approve ChatGPT output. Using diverse examples, Casilli reveals that most "automation" still requires human labor, showing both tomorrow's threats and today's consequences for failing to recognize and compensate human workers"--
650 0 _aLabor supply
_xEffect of technological innovations on.
650 0 _aLabor supply
_xEffect of automation on.
650 0 _aAutomation
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aInformation society.
655 0 _aPrint books.
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_94
700 1 _aBrown, Saskia,
_etranslator.
700 1 _aRoberts, Sarah T.
_c(Professor of information studies),
_ewriter of foreword.
765 0 8 _iTranslation of:
_aCasilli, Antonio A., 1972-
_tEn attendant les robots.
830 0 _aFrance Chicago collection.
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