The post-event resource package is now available! Click on the Post-Event Resources link on the home page. This package will be of interest to professionals, leaders, work and labour organizations, and policy makers interested in AI-Data systems and/or who work with AI-Data systems that perform some form of monitoring, evaluation, or analytics and/or are curious about the ways in which they are ‘surveilled’ and ‘surveilling’ as workers and citizens.

The resource package includes three Speculative Futures scenarios: Datafication, Overseeing the AI-Human, and In My Head & On My Face. Each foregrounds specific forms of AI and data systems and presents a ‘plausible future’ grounded in current versions of AI either in use or development. Although each scenario is set in one sector, discussions should easily extend to a range of different sectors and forms of professional work.

This package is available to all. Each scenario is available under a Creative Commons licence or Open Access arrangement that enables sharing. We trust that the event itself provided some ideas of participants a way to spark similar informed debate in their own contexts as activism, advocacy, or professional learning around AI-Data-Surveillance-Work.

In addition, a short facilitation guide is also available with some background information and suggestions on how you might use these scenarios to spark these sorts of discussions in your surround.

References are provided for the research that has informed the scenarios and questions. Other research that the Exploring our Automated Futures team has generated is listed on the Our Research page.

Email the Exploring Our Automated Futures team for more information or to discuss how you may go about facilitating these discussions in your workplace  aiworkfutures@stir.ac.uk