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Join us and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science for this in-person, collaborative event with Dr Michele Molè (University of Groningen) on the 18 June, including welcome coffee and working lunch. We will discuss labour protection law in an AI economy. Limited spaces available (and selling out fast!)*: https://lnkd.in/dBYr7vPY. *If you have booked a space but are no longer able to attend, please cancel your booking to allow other interested people to attend. University of Edinburgh Moray House School of Education and Sport
I'm giving a "collaborative" seminar at the The University of Edinburgh on 18 June. It is about how to drive a bus, or to talk on the phone, even type on a keyboard, and what kind of regulation we have of these activities in today's world of work. Whether you work with your hands or your head, today's work requires not only your own effort, but what the technologies surrounding us demand. There is a particularly careful way to drive a bus, a particularly friendly way to talk on the phone, specific steps for walking that walkway. What the AI bubble throws in our faces is that, ultimately, it doesn't matter what work you do or for how long, but how you do it. The question I explore is therefore what is missing in labour law that fails to redistribute fair shares not of wages, but of participation, discretion, and the co-creation of knowledge present in every type of work. What kind of work has the law forgotten? I will analyse articles of the GDPR and the AI Act, alongside some collective agreements, to show how labour law and its egalitarian approach to AI must pay far greater attention to safeguarding workers' cognitive and relational contributions against the regimentation that AI promotes and demands in the workplace. What has to be redistributed, I argue, is the freedom and value that every individual brings to a community such as the workplace. To do so we need to regulate and bargain with employers but also and especially with those providers of AI. I am incredibly grateful to Janja Komljenovic, Karen Gregory for inviting me and co-chairing the session, but also to Edinburgh Futures Institute, Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh. If you are around you can register and come along, but get prepared for a in-depth collective discussion!