Automated Labor Landscape // Final Project Studio

Today

• The Automated Labor Landscape
• Final Project Studio

For Next Time

• Work on the Final Project, due December Thursday 19th at 3PM.
  • Be sure to update this spreadsheet with your team information.
  • Milestone 1 is due this coming Thursday
• Read over start working on the Broader Impacts Part 3 Assignment, due on December 6th at 7PM.
• Consider whether there is feedback you’d like to share about the class

The Automated Labor Landscape

Automated labor refers to the process of replacing manually completed actions with technology. While it has colloquially often referred to using machinery to replace physical labor, it is increasingly used to refer to the automation of less physically-intensive tasks across sectors like marketing, customer support, and data analytics.

We’re going to be focused on the slice of the automated labor landscape that specifically involves robots or robotic systems over the next several classes. We’ll be looking at both robotic technologies used in various sectors, and economic and cultural interpretation and commentary on a transition in some markets towards robotic technology.

To get started, we’ll briefly interrogate our pre-conceptions about automated labor. These slides will guide our discussion.