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Program Schedule

Monday, December 16, 2024

9am: Check in

9:30am: Welcome

10am: Plenary: AI and Robotics: Hype, Reality, and History

  • Moderator: Alex Hanna, Distributed AI Research Institute
  • Lilly Irani, UC San Diego Communication & Computer Science 
  • Magally Miranda Alcazar, Pomona College 
  • Laurel Riek, UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute

11:30am: Workshop Sessions 1

  • Tactics: Auditing AI for Discrimination, Bias, and Other Systemic Harms
    with Stuart Geiger (UCSD Communication & Data Science)

  • Foundations: Challenging Worker Datafication: Making Connections Between Data, Power, and Worker Rights
    with Alexandra Mateescu (Data & Society)

  • Case study: AI's Big Squeeze: How AI-driven “Acute Care at Home” Schemes are Pushing the ‘Sandwich Generation’ to the Breaking Point.
    with Michael Kennedy (California Nurses Association / National Nurses United)

  • Digital Security for Workplace Organizers: Tips and Tricks to Keep You and your Coworkers Safe (Part 1 of 2)
    with Bill Budington and Thorin Klosowski (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
    Note this workshop is 3 hours and Part 2 requires Part 1. 

1pm: Lunch and Plenary Panel: Organizing to Win

2:30pm: Workshop Sessions 2

  • Organizing tools: Building Movement Power at the Convergence of Tech, Work, and Migrant Rights with Popular Education, Base-Building, and Comprehensive Campaigns
    with Minsu Longiaru and Vincent Acuña (Powerswitch Action) and Sheheryar Kaoosji (Warehouse Worker Resource Center)

  • Tactics: Negotiating the Technological Landscape: Collective Bargaining Strategies in the Age of AI
    with Lisa Kresge, Kung Feng, and Mishal Khan (UC Berkeley Labor Center)

  • Interactive: The Luddite Lab: Exploring Worker Resistance to AI and Automation
    with Alex Hanna (Distributed AI Research Institute) and Sophie Song (APALA)

  • Digital Security for Workplace Organizers: Tips and Tricks to Keep You and your Coworkers Safe Part II (Part 2 of 2)
    with Bill Budington and Thorin Klosowski (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
    Note this workshop is 3 hours and Part 2 requires Part 1.

4pm: Day one wrap up

4:30pm: Bar (non-hosted) at Digital Gym

6pm:Reception 🎉 and Keynote with investigative comedian Adam Conover (SAG-AFTRA, WGA) 

 

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

9:00am: Welcome

10am: Unconference and Caucusing sessions

11:30am: Regional Survey: How do workers feel about AI?

Noon: Lunch and closing