Come see what we did at the Workers Governing Technologies Workshop this September.On Day 1, we saw a record number of people from unions, worker movements, creative industries, and universities gather at the Schwartz Reisman Institute.
We wanted to introduce as many organizations as possible in conjunction with the theories, solutions, and practices regarding the encroachment of AI technologies in culture and data work.
We conducted lots of great interviews and spotlights with collaboration from KMDI.
On Day 2, we had an amazing turnout at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus, where data workers, researchers, and activists shared the work they were doing in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Spain, the US, and other contexts. We had a robust day of creative brainstorming and authentic community building.
Our workshop came to an end with an ongoing project to make our conversations last. We asked our attendees to brainstorm and take notes on the topics and purposes of our collective learning over the past two days.
We’ll continue to work on this document in the next several weeks. Stay tuned!
Research Assistant
Julia Parke (she/they) is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information and a research affiliate at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. Her doctoral research examines the emergence of virtual/AI social media influencers on popular digital platforms.
