Podcast appearances and mentions of Antonio A Casilli

Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don't obey, or worry about their influence on our choices and our livelihoods. And yet, we also yearn for their convenience, see ourselves reflected in them, and treat them as something entirely new. But when we overestimate the automation of these tools, award-winning author Antonio A. Casilli argues, we fail to recognize how our fellow humans are essential to their efficiency. The danger is not that robots will take our jobs, but that humans will have to do theirs. In this bracing and powerful book, Antonia A. Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how today's technologies, including AI, continue to exploit human labor—even ours. He connects the diverse activities of today's tech laborers: platform workers, like Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts; “micro workers,” including those performing atomized tasks like data entry on Amazon Mechanical Turk; and the rest of us, as we evaluate text or images to show we're not robots, react to Facebook posts, or approve or improve the output of generative AI. As Casilli shows us, algorithms, search engines, and voice assistants wouldn't function without unpaid or underpaid human contributions. Further, he warns that if we fail to recognize this human work, we risk a dark future for all human labor. Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation (U Chicago Press, 2025) urges us to move beyond the simplistic notion that machines are intelligent and autonomous. As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don't dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation. Casilli's eye-opening book makes clear that most “automation” requires human labor—and likely always will—shedding new light on today's consequences and tomorrow's threats of failing to recognize and compensate the “click workers” of today. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is a Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington Books, 2022). His general area of study is at the intersection of space, behavior, and identity. He is currently conducting research about the negotiation that humans make between oneself, identification of place, and the attachment/s they have to those places. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his personal website, Google Scholar, Bluesky (@professorjohnst.bsky.social),Twitter (@ProfessorJohnst), or by email (johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don't obey, or worry about their influence on our choices and our livelihoods. And yet, we also yearn for their convenience, see ourselves reflected in them, and treat them as something entirely new. But when we overestimate the automation of these tools, award-winning author Antonio A. Casilli argues, we fail to recognize how our fellow humans are essential to their efficiency. The danger is not that robots will take our jobs, but that humans will have to do theirs. In this bracing and powerful book, Antonia A. Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how today's technologies, including AI, continue to exploit human labor—even ours. He connects the diverse activities of today's tech laborers: platform workers, like Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts; “micro workers,” including those performing atomized tasks like data entry on Amazon Mechanical Turk; and the rest of us, as we evaluate text or images to show we're not robots, react to Facebook posts, or approve or improve the output of generative AI. As Casilli shows us, algorithms, search engines, and voice assistants wouldn't function without unpaid or underpaid human contributions. Further, he warns that if we fail to recognize this human work, we risk a dark future for all human labor. Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation (U Chicago Press, 2025) urges us to move beyond the simplistic notion that machines are intelligent and autonomous. As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don't dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation. Casilli's eye-opening book makes clear that most “automation” requires human labor—and likely always will—shedding new light on today's consequences and tomorrow's threats of failing to recognize and compensate the “click workers” of today. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is a Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington Books, 2022). His general area of study is at the intersection of space, behavior, and identity. He is currently conducting research about the negotiation that humans make between oneself, identification of place, and the attachment/s they have to those places. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his personal website, Google Scholar, Bluesky (@professorjohnst.bsky.social),Twitter (@ProfessorJohnst), or by email (johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don't obey, or worry about their influence on our choices and our livelihoods. And yet, we also yearn for their convenience, see ourselves reflected in them, and treat them as something entirely new. But when we overestimate the automation of these tools, award-winning author Antonio A. Casilli argues, we fail to recognize how our fellow humans are essential to their efficiency. The danger is not that robots will take our jobs, but that humans will have to do theirs. In this bracing and powerful book, Antonia A. Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how today's technologies, including AI, continue to exploit human labor—even ours. He connects the diverse activities of today's tech laborers: platform workers, like Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts; “micro workers,” including those performing atomized tasks like data entry on Amazon Mechanical Turk; and the rest of us, as we evaluate text or images to show we're not robots, react to Facebook posts, or approve or improve the output of generative AI. As Casilli shows us, algorithms, search engines, and voice assistants wouldn't function without unpaid or underpaid human contributions. Further, he warns that if we fail to recognize this human work, we risk a dark future for all human labor. Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation (U Chicago Press, 2025) urges us to move beyond the simplistic notion that machines are intelligent and autonomous. As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don't dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation. Casilli's eye-opening book makes clear that most “automation” requires human labor—and likely always will—shedding new light on today's consequences and tomorrow's threats of failing to recognize and compensate the “click workers” of today. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is a Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington Books, 2022). His general area of study is at the intersection of space, behavior, and identity. He is currently conducting research about the negotiation that humans make between oneself, identification of place, and the attachment/s they have to those places. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his personal website, Google Scholar, Bluesky (@professorjohnst.bsky.social),Twitter (@ProfessorJohnst), or by email (johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don't obey, or worry about their influence on our choices and our livelihoods. And yet, we also yearn for their convenience, see ourselves reflected in them, and treat them as something entirely new. But when we overestimate the automation of these tools, award-winning author Antonio A. Casilli argues, we fail to recognize how our fellow humans are essential to their efficiency. The danger is not that robots will take our jobs, but that humans will have to do theirs. In this bracing and powerful book, Antonia A. Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how today's technologies, including AI, continue to exploit human labor—even ours. He connects the diverse activities of today's tech laborers: platform workers, like Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts; “micro workers,” including those performing atomized tasks like data entry on Amazon Mechanical Turk; and the rest of us, as we evaluate text or images to show we're not robots, react to Facebook posts, or approve or improve the output of generative AI. As Casilli shows us, algorithms, search engines, and voice assistants wouldn't function without unpaid or underpaid human contributions. Further, he warns that if we fail to recognize this human work, we risk a dark future for all human labor. Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation (U Chicago Press, 2025) urges us to move beyond the simplistic notion that machines are intelligent and autonomous. As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don't dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation. Casilli's eye-opening book makes clear that most “automation” requires human labor—and likely always will—shedding new light on today's consequences and tomorrow's threats of failing to recognize and compensate the “click workers” of today. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is a Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington Books, 2022). His general area of study is at the intersection of space, behavior, and identity. He is currently conducting research about the negotiation that humans make between oneself, identification of place, and the attachment/s they have to those places. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his personal website, Google Scholar, Bluesky (@professorjohnst.bsky.social),Twitter (@ProfessorJohnst), or by email (johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don't obey, or worry about their influence on our choices and our livelihoods. And yet, we also yearn for their convenience, see ourselves reflected in them, and treat them as something entirely new. But when we overestimate the automation of these tools, award-winning author Antonio A. Casilli argues, we fail to recognize how our fellow humans are essential to their efficiency. The danger is not that robots will take our jobs, but that humans will have to do theirs. In this bracing and powerful book, Antonia A. Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how today's technologies, including AI, continue to exploit human labor—even ours. He connects the diverse activities of today's tech laborers: platform workers, like Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts; “micro workers,” including those performing atomized tasks like data entry on Amazon Mechanical Turk; and the rest of us, as we evaluate text or images to show we're not robots, react to Facebook posts, or approve or improve the output of generative AI. As Casilli shows us, algorithms, search engines, and voice assistants wouldn't function without unpaid or underpaid human contributions. Further, he warns that if we fail to recognize this human work, we risk a dark future for all human labor. Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation (U Chicago Press, 2025) urges us to move beyond the simplistic notion that machines are intelligent and autonomous. As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don't dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation. Casilli's eye-opening book makes clear that most “automation” requires human labor—and likely always will—shedding new light on today's consequences and tomorrow's threats of failing to recognize and compensate the “click workers” of today. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is a Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington Books, 2022). His general area of study is at the intersection of space, behavior, and identity. He is currently conducting research about the negotiation that humans make between oneself, identification of place, and the attachment/s they have to those places. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his personal website, Google Scholar, Bluesky (@professorjohnst.bsky.social),Twitter (@ProfessorJohnst), or by email (johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Antonio A. Casilli, professor of sociology at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and a member of the Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation of the French National Center for Scientific Research. In addition to co-leading the research team DiPLab (Digital Platform Labor), he is the co-founder of the INDL (International Network on Digital Labor). His latest book — Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation — is the focus of this episode. In his bracing and powerful book, Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how today's technologies, including AI, continue to exploit human labor. Waiting for Robots urges us to move beyond the simplistic notion that machines are intelligent and autonomous. This eye-opening book makes clear that most “automation” requires human labor — and likely always will — shedding new light on today's consequences and tomorrow's threats of failing to recognize and compensate the “click workers” of today.Grab a copy of Waiting For Robots here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Les ordinateurs se sont immiscés dans notre quotidien. Ils ont changé nos gestes de tous les jours. Les activités qui demandaient un déplacement - aller au magasin, manger un plat de son restaurant préféré, payer ses factures, voire même se rendre chez une prostituée - peuvent désormais se faire sans bouger de chez soi. Quʹen est-il des promesses liées à cette digitalisation du monde? Sommes-nous passés dʹune société de production à une société de services? Avons-nous vraiment pu libérer du temps pour nos loisirs? À quoi ressemblent les vies de celles et ceux qui font marcher les rouages de ce système? 5 reportages de Gérald Wang Réalisation: Didier Rossat Production: Laurence Difélix Invités: Vania Alleva Présidente du syndicat Unia & Antonio A. Casilli Sociologue et professeur à Télécom Paris

Gabriele Giacomini Intervista Antonio A. Casilli. Con le tecnologie digitali non siamo usciti dalla società industriale. Abbiamo, invece, aggiunto un nuovo 'livello', rappresentato dalla 'datificazione' del reale. L'informazione, rappresentata dai dati, diventa un fattore produttivo centrale. Seconda stagione di interviste di Gabriele Giacomini ora anche in podcast. Antonio A. Casilli è professore ordinario di Sociologia alla Telecom Paris, scuola di ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni dell'Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Dal 2007 coordina il seminario "Studiare le culture digitali" alla Scuola di studi superiori in scienze sociali di Parigi (EHESS). È fra i fondatori dell'INDL (International Network on Digital Labor). Fra i suoi libri, tradotti in diverse lingue: "Les Liaisons numériques" (Editions du Seuil 2010), "Against the hypothesis of the end of privacy" (con Paola Tubaro e Yasaman Sarabi, Springer 2014), "Trabajo, conocimiento y vigilancia" (Editorial del Estado 2018), "Schiavi del clic" (Feltrinelli 2020). Intervista del 13 novembre 2020. L'obiettivo di questo "secondo giro" di interviste è, in primo luogo, analizzare le principali sfide alla cittadinanza poste dalla diffusione pervasiva delle ICT e in secondo luogo, individuare le diverse proposte teoriche e pratiche avanzate da filosofi, giuristi, politologi, nonché le azioni fattuali che sono state messe in campo da istituzioni private, amministrazioni locali e governi statali per la promozione di una cittadinanza digitale autonoma e consapevole, che porti all'elaborazione di un habeas mentem adeguato alle sfide presenti e future di una comunità politica (nel senso di polis) sempre più innervata dalle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione. Nel nostro sito il video, la sintesi e l'elenco delle domande: https://www.fondazionebassetti.org/it/focus/2020/12/per_limitare_lavidita_di_dati_.html --------------

Les ordinateurs se sont immiscés dans notre quotidien. Ils ont changé nos gestes de tous les jours. Les activités qui demandaient un déplacement - aller au magasin, manger un plat de son restaurant préféré, payer ses factures, voire même se rendre chez une prostituée - peuvent désormais se faire sans bouger de chez soi. Quʹen est-il des promesses liées à cette digitalisation du monde? Sommes-nous passés dʹune société de production à une société de services? Avons-nous vraiment pu libérer du temps pour nos loisirs? À quoi ressemblent les vies de celles et ceux qui font marcher les rouages de ce système? 5 reportages de Gérald Wang Réalisation: Didier Rossat Production: Laurence Difélix Invités: Vania Alleva Présidente du syndicat Unia & Antonio A. Casilli Sociologue et professeur à Télécom Paris

En attendant les robots : Enquête sur le travail du clique, un ouvrage de Antonio A. Casilli, sociologue spécialiste des réseaux sociaux et des humanités numériques. L’ouvrage est paru le 3 janvier… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

La question de l'anonymat sur l'internet est toujours d'actualité. Ce SMCTalks cherche à faire le point sur les représentations de cet anonymat chez les internautes et sur l'état des techniques. Invités : Antonio A. Casilli (@BodySpaceSoc) & Nicolas Danet (@NTenad) Présentateur : Clément Lhommeau (@CelsaMisc / @LhoClem) Les SMCTalks sont ces émissions réalisées par les étudiants du Master 2 MISC (Médias informatisés et stratégies de communication) du CELSA en partenariat avec le Social Media Club France. Elles visent à interroger des phénomènes et déconstruire des notions liées aux mondes de la communication et des médias numériques. Production : Bastien JOSEPH, Clément LHOMMEAU, Suzanne PENIN, Sarah PERRIER & Camille VITTON. Réalisation : Eric FROQUET, Jacques LECANN & Thibaud VANDERSTRAETEN. Edition : Nicolas MARRONNIER, Claire WEHRUNG, Suzanne PENIN & Camille VITTON. Partenaires : Master 2 MISC, Social Media Club France, CELSA & Stratégies