Work, Labour, and Artificial Intelligence

Undergraduate

The impacts of AI on workers and their work. Topics may include: automation and unemployment; the extent to which AI relies on hidden workers; workplace exploitation and the trauma faced by workers; the use of AI to surveil and manage workers; the appropriation of workers’ creative work by AI; and the ways in which labour organizing and unions are adapting to changing workplaces. Course Format: Lectures, 3 hours per week. Course Notes: This course may be offered in multiple modes of delivery. The method of delivery will be listed on the academic timetable, in the applicable term.