AI talks @ ETUI
Contesting algorithmic workplace regimes in an era of flexible despotism,
Webinar on 9 March 2026, 14h-15h CET
Top experts from academia, civil society and online rights organizations, among others, will share their insights and knowledge about artificial intelligence, building a 360° view of how AI is disrupting and reshaping the world we live in.
Guest speaker: Alex J. Wood, Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology in the Sociology Department and Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.
This talk investigates recent claims that the growing use of algorithms is giving rise to a novel workplace regime. The talk makes two conceptual contributions: first, it identifies the generic characteristics of this supposed algorithmic workplace regime. Second, it puts into question the exceptionalism of algorithmic workplace regimes. This is achieved by bringing the centrality of non-algorithmic management techniques in co-constituting algorithmic regimes into focus and by historically situating the regime’s emergence within the wider workplace regime literature. In doing so the article questions the novelty and distinctiveness of algorithmic workplace regimes, arguing that such regimes are better understood as a subtype of flexible despotism that can be traced back to the 1980s.
Moderator: Aida Ponce Del Castillo, Senior researcher @ ETUI
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