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Message posted on 05/06/2023

Invitation: VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies Seminar XVII with Karen Levy (Cornell University) - Robotruckers: The Double Threat of AI for Low-Wage Work

Dear all,

I am delighted to invite you all to our upcoming and last seminar of the academic year where we invite Karen Levy (Cornell University) for a seminar entitled 'Robotruckers: The Double Threat of AI for Low-Wage Work'. The seminar takes place online June 14 from 3PM - 4.30PM CET. As always registration is free. If you haven't done so already and wish to attend the seminar, please do register here: https://www.vub.be/nl/evenement/vub-chair-in-surveillance-studies-seminar-wit h-karen-levy

Please feel free to distribute the flyer (attached) and registration to those who might be interested.

Abstract and biography:

Much attention has been paid to the risk artificial intelligence poses to employment, particularly in low-wage industries. Long-haul truck driving is perceived as a prime target for such displacement, due to the fast-developing technical capabilities of autonomous vehicles, characteristics of trucking labor, and the political economy of the industry. In most of the public rhetoric about the threat of the self-driving truck, the trucker is seen as a displaced party. He is displaced both physically and economically: removed from the cab of the truck, and from his means of economic provision. But the reality is more complicated. The intrusion of automation into the truck cab certainly presents a threat to the trucker, but the threat is not solely or even primarily experienced as displacement. The trucker is still in the cab, doing the work of truck driving-but he is joined there by intelligent systems that monitor his body directly. As more trucking firms integrate such technologies into their safety programs, truckers are not being displaced by intelligent systems so much as they are experiencing the emergence of intelligent systems as a compelled hybridization, a very intimate incursion into their work and bodies. This talk considers the dual, conflicting narratives of job replacement by robots and of bodily integration with robots, to assess the true range of AI's potential effects on low-wage work.

Karen Levy is an associate professor of Information Science at Cornell University and associated faculty at Cornell Law School. Her new book, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, offers a behind-the-scenes look at how surveillance and automation are affecting the trucking way of life.

We hope to see many of you June 14th!

In case you should have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Kind regards, Bram Visser PhD Candidate at the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies

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