[Air-L] Tracker, AI & Worker Mobilization in Arts, Culture and Media

[Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann]

Hi AoIR,

We just launched a new tracker on workers' mobilization around AI in arts, culture and media. Around the world, cultural workers are striking, protesting, running campaigns, and organizing in response to the use of AI in the workplace.  The tracker aims to document strikes, protests, campaigns, and other mobilizations by cultural workers, broadly understood across the arts, culture, and media sectors, in relation to AI around the world.

The tracker currently maps 107 unions, associations, collectives, and coalitions across +25 countries. It covers a wide range of cases, from Hollywood unions and organizations to voice actors in Brazil and Chile, screenwriters in India, and musicians in South Korea, among many others.

This tracker is part of the Worker-led AI Governance project under the Creative Labour & Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster, and it is intended to help inform workers, researchers, policy makers, and the broader public about the current state of mobilizations and negotiations around AI in the cultural sector.

Link:  https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/resource-files/tracker-ai-mobilization-clcf.html

Database produced by Helena Wright & Rafael Grohmann
Co-directors of Creative Labour and Critical Futures: M.E. Luka, Rafael Grohmann & Daphne Idiz
Project funded by University of Toronto Scarborough

best,

Rafael


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dr. Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann>

Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/>

University of Toronto

Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/>
Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/>

Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS>

Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/>

Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/>

Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-world-of-work>
Senior Fellow, Massey College<https://www.masseycollege.ca/>

Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>  <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>