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SUMMARY:The hidden human labour powering AI: Introducing the Fairwork Act
 ion Research Project
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DESCRIPTION:The hidden human labour powering AI: Introducing the Fairwork
  Action Research Project\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nMark Graham is the Professor o
 f Internet Geography at Oxford University. He is also the Director of Fa
 irwork. This initiative has actively pushed companies to implement worke
 r-friendly policies\, impacting millions of jobs. His latest book\, "Fee
 ding the Machine\," delves into the human labour behind the development 
 of Artificial Intelligence.\n\nAbstract:\nArtificial intelligence is oft
 en seen as a mirror of human intelligence\, an attempt to replicate the 
 processes that occur within a human mind. However\, a different perspect
 ive is presented in the book Feeding the Machine\, co-authored by Prof. 
 Mark Graham. AI is described as an "extraction machine." When users inte
 ract with AI products\, they typically only see the surface and the outp
 uts it generates. In reality\, the extraction machine absorbs vital inpu
 ts - capital\, power\, natural resources\, human labour\, data\, and col
 lective intelligence - and transforms them into statistical predictions\
 , which AI companies convert into profits. This process requires control
  over material infrastructure\, workers and knowledge.\n\nThe talk intro
 duces the Fairwork project\, an action research methodology designed to 
 hold companies within the AI production network accountable. It examines
  how the Fairwork methodology has successfully functioned in the gig eco
 nomy\, having scored nearly 700 companies to date. Fairwork works with p
 latforms to encourage pro-worker changes to policies and practices. Guid
 ed by the Fairwork Principles\, companies improve conditions for workers
  and develop safer\, fairer businesses. As a result of Fairwork's engage
 ment\, 64 companies have agreed to implement 300 pro-worker changes\, co
 vering all five principles.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:3.014a\, Aliiance Manchester Business School\, Booth Street West
 \, Manchester\, M15 6PB
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