Automation

An interview with Rosi Braidotti,
philosopher, reflecting on technology, inequality and the politics of life itself in a world of artificial meat and surveillance capitalism.

An analysis of the possibilities for organised labour in an age of automation and climate change.

INRS, the French body in charge of occupational health and safety, analyses the potential impact of automation on occupational health and safety.

Advances in labour-saving technology promise to radically restructure the labour market. The political challenge is to ensure the benefits are shared by all.

What might self-driving cars, robotisation, and the so-called ‘internet of things’ mean for society, and how are political forces reacting?

Antonio Casilli discusses ‘microwork’, the increasingly common, hard-to-measure practice that sees people carry out small tasks online for even tinier amounts of pay.

For some, the gig economy is the new reality of work and opportunity. For others, it is a return to power relations that labour law hoped to, and perhaps still can, stamp out.

The automotive industry is in store for drastic change in the next ten years as the car is practically being reinvented and Germany and China compete to develop electric car technology.

Experts and politicians around Europe discuss the state of the AI and robotics debate in their country and the position of the Green party.

What can be done to reconcile technological progress and civic democracy?