📢We are inviting you to participate in our survey “Challenges in Responsible AI”, an initiative to understand your challenges that will further help shape the future of Responsible Ai UK research programme.
Click to participate: forms.office.com/e/aviHhV17gF

Open until April 20, 2024

Gem from a haul at the Maghreb Review in Bloomsbury this weekend. This one from the “honeypot” of books Mohamed keeps out front, from beyond the Middle East.

'Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1000 people in India watching and labelling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site and they watched you as you shopped.'
#Amazon #AI #Automation
gizmodo.com/amazon-reporte…

We're building some exciting capacities over at Autonomy 👀

DeSmog
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

In a recent study based on millions of online job postings in Britain, Christopher Pissarides and his Institute for the Future of Work colleagues find that recent tech advances have not fundamentally changed the skills employers are seeking. bit.ly/4auQCfr

Anthropologist and IFOW Research Fellow Lily Rodel from Oxford Internet Institute on 'return to office' mandates, and the issues around #power , #productivity - and women in particular - that these present. Excellent new blog post just published: ifow.org/news-articles/…

NEW on the blog:
Frederick Harry Pitts ⁦Frederick Harry Pitts⁩ discusses Rachel Reeves’ Mais Lecture - and looks at what ‘securonomics’ might mean in practice. renewal.org.uk/securonomics-t…

The huge costs of childcare are one of the most odious legacies of the neoliberal destruction of the welfare state. In many OECD countries having baby is a luxury these days. Yet, politicians pretend they don't know why there is a demographic crisis.

Our Comms lead Kester Brewin has a new book charting the history of #AI , and of humanity's complex relationship with creating super-powerful technologies. We're delighted to invite you to a relaxed post-work launch event for it Somerset House on 26th March
eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-event…

A new study from Institute for the Future of Work finds that the more workers were exposed to technologies like trackers, robots, and AI-based software, the worse their health and wellbeing tended to be. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Excited to announce that IFOW is partnering with Digital Futures at Work Research Centre for 2024. We will be working to support their policy engagement activities over the final year of their current five-year research programme. More info here:

ifow.org/news-articles/…

PhD viva flashbacks! With my former supervisor BrendanBurchell and examiners Kirsten Sehnbruch Francis Green LLAKES Centre all in the same room today. Lucky to have you once again discussing our research on work, tech & #Wellbeing with Institute for the Future of Work Nuffield Foundation

AI industrial policies increasingly shape the relationship of govts to the AI industry, committing public $ to R&D and procurement.

Today, we publish “AI Nationalism(s)”: an essay collection surveying this consequential wave of global policymaking: ainowinstitute.org/ai-nationalisms

1/🧵

Prof. Francis Green on our new study on tech exposure and wellbeing: 'moving from 'never' to 'often' in your response to use of workplace wearables, you'd need to *double* your income to compensate/fill that wellbeing loss back in.' ifow.org/publications/w… #APPGontheFutureOfWork

Great new research by Magdalena Soffia et al. Institute for the Future of Work on technology at work and wellbeing finds that exposure to AI, surveillance devices - such as wearable trackers, and robotics are associated with worse health and wellbeing. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Incredible work by my talented colleague Magdalena Soffia out today, also platformed by the Gaurdian.

This digs into different types of cognitive technology and associated impacts on wellbeing. Next paper sets out how this is mediated by changes to
job quality 🙌

Our new report on the impact of tech on workers' #wellbeing in The Guardian.
Mary Towers from Trades Union Congress: 'Things don’t have to be this way. If we put the guardrails in place, #AI can be harnessed to genuinely enhance #productivity and improve working lives.”
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

This morning we are excited to be publishing a ground-breaking new study led by Magdalena Soffia and Jolene Skordis for the Pissarides Review - funded by Nuffield Foundation - into how exposure to technology is interacting with workers' quality of life and wellbeing. ifow.org/publications/w…

Michael Veale @[email protected] Reuben Binns @[email protected] six silberman EU Social 🇪🇺 International Labour Organization European Commission European Parliament Judith Freedman [for the go-to piece on DPIAs in the #ARM context, see papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… by Aislinn Kelly-Lyth and Anna Thomas Institute for the Future of Work ]

Today we're working with Enterprise M3 to deliver an #AI literacy workshop for business support advisers. Excited to take our research on how technology adoption can lead to #goodwork out to industry. Do get in touch if you'd like to explore us offering this to your organisation.