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Who is Steering AI? From Tech Oligarchs to Worker Power<\/h3>\n\n\n\nLilly Irani
<\/strong>Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies, Just Transitions Initiative, UC San Diego\n\n\n\nLilly Irani is an Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego where she co-directs the Just Transitions Initiative. She also serves as faculty in the Design Lab, Institute for Practical Ethics, the program in Critical Gender Studies. She is author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2019) and Redacted (with Jesse Marx) (Taller California, 2021). Chasing Innovation has been awarded the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for feminist anthropological research on work, science, or technology, including biomedicine. Her research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work and the counter-practices they generate, as both an ethnographer, a designer, and a former technology worker. She is a co-founder of the digital worker advocacy organization Turkopticon. Her work has appeared at ACM SIGCHI, New Media & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values, South Atlantic Quarterly, and other venues. She sits on the Editorial Committee of Public Culture and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of New Technology, Work, and Employment and Design and Culture. She has a Ph.D. in Informatics from University of California, Irvine.\n\n\n\nLearn more<\/strong>
Website:\u00a0 https:\/\/quote.ucsd.edu\/lirani\/<\/a>
Book: Redacted<\/a> by Lilly Irani and Jesse Marx
Book: Chasing Innovation<\/a> by Lilly Irani
Crowd worker advocacy: https:\/\/turkopticon.net\/<\/a>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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