use AI to give users agency instead of stealing their agency.

And AI’s semivisible, infrastructural role in exploiting precarious labor (Uber’s nifty algorithm for suppressing driver wages), landlordism (RealPage’s widely used rent-hiking software), and neocolonial war (Israel’s high-tech civilian-bombing gadgetry) may already be too entrenched to stop. But professional readers and writers: We retain some... See more

Practically speaking, “AI” has become a synonym for automation, along with a similar if not identical set of unwarranted claims about technological progress and the future of work. Workers over the better part of the past century, like most members of the general public, have had a great deal of difficulty talking about changes to the means of... See more