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View article: Confusing the Map for the Territory
Confusing the Map for the Territory Open
The limits of datasets for culturally inclusive AI.
View article: Effective Automation to Support the Human Infrastructure in AI Red Teaming
Effective Automation to Support the Human Infrastructure in AI Red Teaming Open
This forum focuses on the conditions and futures of the labor underpinning technology production and maintenance. We welcome standalone articles as well as interviews and conversations about all tech labor within the global supply chain of…
View article: AURA: Amplifying Understanding, Resilience, and Awareness for Responsible AI Content Work
AURA: Amplifying Understanding, Resilience, and Awareness for Responsible AI Content Work Open
Behind the scenes of maintaining the safety of technology products from harmful and illegal digital content lies unrecognized human labor. The recent rise in the use of generative AI technologies and the accelerating demands to meet respon…
View article: AI red-teaming is a sociotechnical challenge: on values, labor, and harms
AI red-teaming is a sociotechnical challenge: on values, labor, and harms Open
As generative AI technologies find more and more real-world applications, the importance of testing their performance and safety seems paramount. "Red-teaming" has quickly become the primary approach to test AI models--prioritized by AI co…
View article: The Human Factor in AI Red Teaming: Perspectives from Social and Collaborative Computing
The Human Factor in AI Red Teaming: Perspectives from Social and Collaborative Computing Open
Rapid progress in general-purpose AI has sparked significant interest in "red\nteaming," a practice of adversarial testing originating in military and\ncybersecurity applications. AI red teaming raises many questions about the\nhuman facto…
View article: AURA: Amplifying Understanding, Resilience, and Awareness for Responsible AI Content Work
AURA: Amplifying Understanding, Resilience, and Awareness for Responsible AI Content Work Open
Behind the scenes of maintaining the safety of technology products from harmful and illegal digital content lies unrecognized human labor. The recent rise in the use of generative AI technologies and the accelerating demands to meet respon…
View article: Participation in the age of foundation models
Participation in the age of foundation models Open
Growing interest and investment in the capabilities of foundation models has positioned such systems to impact a wide array of public services. Alongside these opportunities is the risk that these systems reify existing power imbalances an…
View article: Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI
Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI Open
Revolutionary advances in AI have brought us to a transformative moment for science. AI is accelerating scientific discoveries and analyses. At the same time, its tools and processes challenge core norms and values in the conduct of scienc…
View article: Can Workers Meaningfully Consent to Workplace Wellbeing Technologies?
Can Workers Meaningfully Consent to Workplace Wellbeing Technologies? Open
Sensing technologies deployed in the workplace can unobtrusively collect detailed data about individual activities and group interactions that are otherwise difficult to capture. A hopeful application of these technologies is that they can…
View article: What skills and abilities can automation technologies replicate and what does it mean for workers?
What skills and abilities can automation technologies replicate and what does it mean for workers? Open
This paper exploits novel data on the degree of automatability of approximately 100 skills and abilities collected through an original survey of experts in AI, and link them to occupations using information on skill and ability requirement…
View article: “This Seems to Work”: Designing Technological Systems with The Algorithmic Imaginations of Those Who Labor
“This Seems to Work”: Designing Technological Systems with The Algorithmic Imaginations of Those Who Labor Open
Algorithmically mediated systems and tools are used by workers across the globe. Many of these workers are in low-power positions, where they have little leverage to make demands around transparency, explanation, or terms of use, yet, at t…
View article: Capturing COVID-19–Like Symptoms at Scale Using Banner Ads on an Online News Platform: Pilot Survey Study
Capturing COVID-19–Like Symptoms at Scale Using Banner Ads on an Online News Platform: Pilot Survey Study Open
Background Identifying new COVID-19 cases is challenging. Not every suspected case undergoes testing, because testing kits and other equipment are limited in many parts of the world. Yet populations increasingly use the internet to manage …
View article: Capturing COVID-19–Like Symptoms at Scale Using Banner Ads on an Online News Platform: Pilot Survey Study (Preprint)
Capturing COVID-19–Like Symptoms at Scale Using Banner Ads on an Online News Platform: Pilot Survey Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Identifying new COVID-19 cases is challenging. Not every suspected case undergoes testing, because testing kits and other equipment are limited in many parts of the world. Yet populations increasingly use the internet to manage…
View article: More Than Money: Correlation among Worker Demographics, Motivations, and Participation in Online Labor Market
More Than Money: Correlation among Worker Demographics, Motivations, and Participation in Online Labor Market Open
Most prior research about online labor markets examines the dynamics of a single work platform and either worker demographics or motivations associated with that site. How demographics and motives correlate with each other, and with engage…
View article: Computer-Supported Career Development in The Future of Work
Computer-Supported Career Development in The Future of Work Open
As people increasingly work different jobs, the respon-sibility of building long-term career satisfaction and stability increasingly falls more on the workers rather than individual employers. With technologies playing a central role in ho…
View article: Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Research
Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Research Open
Numerous crowdsourcing platforms are now available to support research as well as commercial goals. However, crowdsourcing is not yet widely adopted by researchers for generating, processing or analyzing research data. This study develops …
View article: The Sharing Economy and its discontents
The Sharing Economy and its discontents Open
This panel brings together a series of related critiques over labor and fairness in the sharing economy. The last decade has brought a startling growth in the deployment of networked communications technologies to organize work. Mobile app…
View article: Jumping for Fun? Negotiating Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare
Jumping for Fun? Negotiating Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare Open
Rather than assume that there is some universal “right way” to engage social media platforms, we interrogate how the location-based social media practice known as “jumping” played out on the popular service Foursquare. We use this case to …