Our special issue on Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Labor Protection of the @CLLPJ is finally out cllpj.law.illinois.edu Here is a link to the Introduction summarizing the papers of the SI, written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
In my article, I argue that AI poses vital challenges to workers’ privacy and human dignity, as it enable employers’ surveillance in unprecedented ways. I call for social partners to intervene to govern the introduction and use of these technologies papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
.@phoebemoore starts by explaining the different notions of AI comparing them with the concept of human intelligence. She thus gives examples of AI applications in the world of work and examines OSH risks related to them papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
.@janinemberg examines the link between new technologies and the growth of non-standard forms of employment. She argues tech has established a new hierarchy of labor with casual, unremunerated and domestic care work and heteromated labor at its outer rings papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
.@_aloisi & @eleninagra approach AI surveillance from the perspective of the EU GDPR, and weight it against national regulation governing it in France, Italy and Germany. They highlight some weaknesses of these systems and reflect on legislative solutions papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
.@JeremiasPrassl deals with AI at work and argues that it is coming for managers’ rather than workers’ jobs, so far. Monitoring and evaluating performance, hiring and firing are increasingly outsourced to machines.This is what makes the real difference with the past, he argues
.@frhendrickx examines privacy regulation at the workplace when it comes to big data and AI-monitoring. He traces the history of data protection up to “privacy 4.0” and argues that even the most recent regulation, such as the GDPR, could not be enough to face current challenges
.@ilaria_armaroli & @EmanueleDagnino’s article examines how trade unions have made big data and algorithmic management a bargaining issue; by analyzing collective agreements regulating these issues in various countries, they show that “negotiating the algorithm” is possible
.@Prof_MCherry’s article is the result of an in-depth historical search through the archives of the @ilo, informing us about the discussions held at the Organization re the many past waves of fear about job displacement and mass unemployment driven by technology
The article of @CLLPJ’s editor Matt Finkin examines past debates on job displacement in the United States and compares them to ours. He argues that our crucial concern should not be about job losses but about how technology now fosters worse working conditions for many workers
David Kucera and Fernanda Bárcia de Mattos examine how automation impacts on developing countries and its feasibility across various sectors. Their study covers under-researched topics in the “Future of Work” debate, including possible reshoring and its impact on the Global South
The article of Uma Rani and Parmindeer Jeet Singh concludes the special issue by analyzing how the flow of big data and crowd work from developing to industrialized countries perpetuates imbalances and, contrary to common wisdom, is hardly beneficial for the Global South
1) The Directive will force Member States to adopt a presumption of employment for platform workers. This is less stringent than the very strong presumption the EU Parliament wanted but much more meaningful than what Member States and the Commission initially proposed.
2) The national presumption will have to be based on “facts” instead of legal criteria as in the Commission’s and Council’s texts. This is a true procedural help for platform workers claiming reclassification. Also, the Directive expressly states that: (i) the this presumption…
Quando avete tempo, possiamo anche discutere del fatto che il Garante NON ha affatto bloccato ChatGPT, né ha mai deciso che in Italia vada bloccata l’intelligenza artificiale né sistemi di LLM come ChatGPT. Discutiamo da tre giorni di una allucinazione collettiva. THREAD 👇🏼
Il Garante ha notificato a ChatGPT che 1) non ha predisposto una informativa sulla privacy; 2) non ha chiarito a che titolo tratti i dati personali degli utenti che processa; 3) non prevede meccanismi per evitare che i minori di 13 anni accedano al servizio (la stessa OpenAI…
… si è preposta questi limiti di età). Tutti questi punti non sono una trovata goliardica del Garante ma sono chiaramente richiesti dal GDPR della UE. Il Garante NON ha bloccato ChatGPT. Open AI, la società che gestisce CHAT GPT ha settimane di tempo per spiegare come intende..
THREAD on AI, ChatGPT, and the Scientific Method. 1/ We've undergone the Scientific Revolution in a (problematic) attempt to understand the world and nature, including human nature, and then to dominate it through science and technology.
2/ The ultimate (again, problematic) goal of this endeavour was to gain control over these elements, to dominate them and bend them to our will. One of the fundamental aspects of the scientific method is the experiment, as it allows for replicability. #ScientificMethod
3/ Once you identify a principle, you can repeat the experiment with the same results and then apply those results on a large scale in the real world. What puzzles me about the current movement towards AI is that we want to create increasingly independent systems
+++CHATGPT IN A COURT DECISION +++
And so it begins! I am sharing here the first (as far as i know) judgement that openly used ChatGPT to ground its reasoning. It is in Spanish. THREAD diariojudicial.com/public/documen…
The crucial part starts on p. 5, where the Court reports the answers to the legal questions they posed to ChatGPT. Then, at the end of p. 6, the Court adopts the arguments given in these answers as grounds for its decision.
Apparently, the use of ICT in judicial decisions is allowed by the law in Colombia. The Court says: "The arguments for this decision will be determined in line with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Accordingly, we entered parts of the legal questions posed...
NEW BOOK OUT! 🧵We are delighted that "A Research Agenda for the Gig Economy and Society" is out today. Ilda Durri, Charalampos Stylogiannis, @MathiasWouters1, and I edited it. It features chapters by a wonderful, interdisciplinary group of scholars THREAD e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-res…
As editors, we wrote the intro and first chapter of the book. This is the only chapter that discusses the employment status of platform workers across the globe in the book. All the other chapters concentrate on other, new and vital issues that affect these workers worldwide👇🏼
@AudeCefaliello and @CristinaInversi analyze the OSH risks suffered by platform workers and the challenges this work and other precarious forms of work present to regulators that aim at mitigating these risks. This is a hugely understudied and crucial topic👇🏼
+++BREAKING ON PLATFORM WORK AND VULNERABLE SELF-EMPLOYED WORK+++ The EU Commission just released its Guidelines exempting solo self-employed workers, including platform workers, from EU antitrust law for the purpose of collective bargaining - THREAD competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2…
The Guidelines cover ‘solo self-employed person’, i.e. persons who are not in an employment relationship and rely primarily on their own personal labour for the provision of the services concerned
This notion corresponds to the personal work approach to competition law and collective bargaining advanced by @N_Countouris, myself and other colleagues like @IoannisLianos (based on a longstanding idea of Mark Freedland and Nicola) HOWEVER… socialeurope.eu/collective-bar…