Last month, we launched a new tracker on workers’ mobilization around AI in arts, culture and media. Around the world, cultural workers are striking, protesting, running campaigns, and organizing in response to the use of AI in the workplace. The tracker aims to document strikes, protests, campaigns, and other mobilizations by cultural workers, broadly understood across the arts, culture, and media sectors, in relation to AI around the world.
The tracker currently maps 107 unions, associations, collectives, and coalitions across +25 countries. It covers a wide range of cases, from Hollywood unions and organizations to voice actors in Brazil and Chile, screenwriters in India, and musicians in South Korea, among many others.
This tracker is part of the Worker-led AI Governance project under the Creative Labour & Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster, and it is intended to help inform workers, researchers, policy makers, and the broader public about the current state of mobilizations and negotiations around AI in the cultural sector.
Database produced by Helena Wright & Rafael Grohmann
Co-directors of CLCF: M.E. Luka, Rafael Grohmann & Daphne Idiz
Project funded by University of Toronto Scarborough
CLCF Co-Director & Assistant Professor
Rafael Grohmann is a Co-lead and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. Rafael is the leader of the DigiLabour initiative and founding editor of the Platforms & Society journal.
Research Assistant
Helena Wright is a PhD student at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information and is working under the supervision of Dr. Grohmann. Her research explores the intersections of technology, labour, and platform studies.
