Anuli Akanegbu interrogates what it means to be perceived as “AI literate” in today’s labor market, and how perceptions of skill are shaping the career outcomes of Black workers who are already navigating a wide range of inequities. Read more

In this report, Tamara Kneese examines how, in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism, climate-conscious tech workers and larger coalitions attempt to reform the tech industry. Read more

This report offers a vision for red-teaming in the public interest: a process that goes beyond system-centric testing of already built systems to consider the full range of ways the public can be involved in evaluating genAI harms. Read more

Examining the risks that financial wellness may pose to workers and society, this report asks: Who ultimately benefits from framing financial status as a matter of health? Read more

In “Establishing Vigilant Care: Data Infrastructures and the Black Birthing Experience,” Data & Society researcher Joan Mukogosi explains why many prominent interventions to this crisis are neglecting other risks to Black people. Read more

While platforms provide a new way for professionals to find patients, diminish administrative load, and earn additional income, providers have also increasingly been recruited into labor arrangements that mirror those of other gigified sectors like service and delivery work. Read more

Blooming in Muddy Waters: DEI at AI Ethics Conferences focuses on AI ethics conferences at a key moment in their evolution, as they shift from being about matters of DEI in the development of data and technology, to playing an active role in fostering these values where knowledge production happens.   Read more

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This report by Health & Data researchers Livia Garofalo, Amanda Lenhart, Ireti Akinrinade and Joan Mukogosi explores how essential workers reacted to, and in some cases worked around, public health surveillance in their workplaces, set up in response to COVID-19. Read more

In this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly invisible to customers: third-party (3P) sellers. Read more