Independent Research and Policy for the Public Interest

"Like the architecture of the modern web, the modern labor market is structured by algorithms, mediated by platforms, and driven by unequal investments in access."

The Algorithmic Impact Lab (AIMLab) was launched in May 2023 to explore how algorithmic impact assessments can center the voices of impacted communities. Our goal is to shape emerging best practices as AIAs become increasingly mandated by law and policy, and to show how assessments can be driven by the concerns of the most affected.

"The result is what we call wellness capitalism, a model of public health involving the state, employers, and a wellness industry in which worker behaviors are monitored to improve society's health."

"However, for Black birthing people, the value of being connected to femtech is curtailed by the risk of privacy breaches and unequal devices and Internet, contributing to a lack of confidence in the ability of these tools to improved equity."

"For sellers, becoming the medium of Amazon's managerial logics and its indirect appropriation of public resources is the price of their exclusionary inclusion in the exciting world of e-commerce."

"The question of how tech workers organize against accelerating climate change and political hostility to climate-related work is important to ask and important to ask now."

"In conclusion, we must reframe the relationship between AI and society from adversarial to co-constitutive. By co-constitutive framing, we mean that AI is already embedded within society."

"By centering workers' experiences and interrogating the relationship between generative AI and the underexplored issues of hierarchy, recognition, and adaption in labor, these interdisciplinary conversations shed light on how new technological systems are impacting worker agency and power."