On November 5-7, 2020, DiPLab researchers Elinor Wahal, Antonio Casilli, Paola Tubaro, Julian Posada organized the two-day conference Unboxing AI. Understanding Artificial Intelligence. The event was hosted by the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, in collaboration with INDL (International Network on Digital Labour), NEXA Center for Internet & Society, ISRF Independent Social Research Foundation. (Due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, the conference was entirely held online).
Day 1: Thursday November 5th, 2020
3.00 pm – Opening keynote
Janine Berg (ILO) – Automation and Artificial Intelligence at work
4.00 pm
Andrea Miconi (IULM) – Digital Surplus. From Marx to the web
5.00 pm
Nick Couldry (LSE) & Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY) – Data colonialism. Big data and contemporary subjectivity
6.00 pm
Phoebe Moore (Leicester) – Who makes Artificial Intelligence: AI trainers behind the dream
Chair
Ivana Pais (Università Cattolica, Milan)
Day 2: Friday November 6th, 2020
3.00 pm
Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine) – Mediating the human body in AI creation
4.00 pm
Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto) – Boxing AI at Amazon fulfillment centres
5.00 pm
Baruch Gottlieb (University of Arts, Berlin) – Digital materialism. A materialist understanding of digital technologies
Chair
Antonio Santangelo (University of Turin)
6.00 pm – Closing keynote
Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford) – Automating HR: new liabilities, new worker protections
Day 3: Saturday November 7th, 2020
3.00 pm PhD Symposium Session 1
Vicky Kluzik (Goethe University Frankfurt) – Seeing like a platform
Kai-Hsin Hung (HEC Montreal) – Data workers in India
Idil Galip (U.niversity of Edinburgh) – Digital patronage
Discussant
Juan Carlos De Martin (Polytechnic University of Turin)
4.30 pm – In conversation with
Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA) – Moderating Internet in a Pandemic
5.30PM – PhD Symposium Session 2
Lou Brandner (University of Rome La Sapienza) – Freelance Creative Labour
Saverio Minardi (University of Trento) – Labor replacing technologies and labor market inequalities
Jonathan Gruber (University of Zurich) – Skills for being aware of algorithms
Discussant
Andrea Fumagalli (University of Pavia)