An Institute for Policy Research (IPR) online event. Reserve a spot here.
Overview
Join James Muldoon for an exploration of the unseen workforce and global supply chains that make artificial intelligence possible. This event will take place on March 12th 2026.
About the event
Drawing on more than a decade of research, hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork, James Muldoon reveals the lives of the workers often deliberately concealed from view and the systems of power that determine their future.
While Big Tech promotes AI as a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity, he exposes a different reality hidden beneath this surface: a precarious global workforce of millions that make AI possible.
He examines the power structures that govern digital work and explains what we need to do, individually and collectively, to build a more just digital future.
This event is open to all.
Speaker biography
James Muldoon is a sociologist whose work explores the human side of artificial intelligence and other technologies. He is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Management at the Essex Business School and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. His broader research reveals the hidden human labour and global supply chains that make artificial intelligence possible, and how digital work is transforming sectors from ride-hailing and food delivery to childcare and domestic work. His books include Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming our Relationships (2026) and, with Mark Graham and Callum Cant, Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI (2024).
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