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This past October, I had the immense honor of delivering a keynote address at the seventh International Network on Digital… read more [Video] How to Build New Digital Utopias: Reflections after my INDL-7 Keynote Speech

My latest book, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation, is now available for pre-order. This work represents the… read more Waiting for Robots: Now You Can Pre-Order My New Book on the Paradox of Automation

I am excited to share the wonderful news that the Call for Papers for the seventh annual conference of our International… read more INDL-7 CfP Officially Out! 28-30 October 2024, Santiago, Chile

What if, since the 17th century Mechanical Turk, an automaton that gave the impression of playing chess when in fact… read more [Podcast] Truly Ethical AI Need Focus on Digital Labor (Dataring, 15 Apr. 2024)

In March 2024, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels published the book titled Artificial Intelligence, Labour and Society,… read more My Chapter in New ETUI Book “Artificial Intelligence, Labour and Society”

In a recent interview with Rémi Noyon for French the magazine Novel Obs, I had the privilege to say my… read more Digital ‘detox’ is a form of class privilege: my new interview in magazine Nouvel Obs (March 28, 2024)

On March 22, 2024, I was invited at Radio France Culture’s program “Le Meilleur des Mondes” to discuss the recent… read more [Podcast] Everything You Wanted to Know About the European Platform Work Directive, But Were Afraid to Ask (Radio France Culture, March 22, 2024)

In the French newspaper Libération, I was interviewed on the phenomenon of the “hired hands of automation” in low-income countries…. read more Read My Interview About AI and Global Inequalities (Libération, March 21, 2024)

The journey from En attendans les robots, which I published in 2019 in French (and was republished in pocket edition… read more [BIG ANNOUNCEMENT] New Edition of “Waiting for Robots” (out Jan 2025 in the US)

The narrative of automation is a capitalist scare tactic. Threatening to displace workers en masse, conceals the underlying reality: AI… read more How Robot Drive-Thrus Scare And Exploit Fast Food Workers