As rampant technocapitalism continues to fuel the unchecked adoption of artificial intelligence, the Archiving the Black Web project believes that the cultural memory sector must engage this new reality in critical ways that demonstrate our care for traditionally marginalized and vulnerable people. This series of conversations with workers’ rights activists, AI data workers, scholars, and cultural memory practitioners will cover several topics around the human and environmental impacts resulting from the unregulated development of AI technologies. Topics will address the invisible labor of data workers, environmental pollution and energy consumption, surveillance capitalism, how AI threatens information integrity and fuels the growth of misinformation, online abuse, and mental health crises, and the political and financial motivations of data center development, among others.
Webinar Topics Include:
- Advocating for the Labor Rights, Care, and Dignity of African AI Data Workers
- Adopting Ethical Standards and Fair Practices to Inform Platform Regulation and Protect AI Data Workers in the Global South
- How the AI Technology Boom Could be Ushering in New Forms of Forced Labor