Workers, algorithms & the EU: Interview with Aída Ponce Del Castillo

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The Gig Economy Project is a media network for gig workers in Europe, seeking to promote efforts to transform work in the digital age. We publish on the the Brave New Europe website, see here: https://braveneweurope.com/the-gig-economy-project Bike couriers, ‘micro-taskers’, home care workers, & many more who work on-demand in the digital platform economy & have few job protections are at the sharpest edge of capitalist exploitation, but are also providing some of the most creative and powerful forms of resistance in the working class today. This podcast provides insight into that resistance.

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Workers, algorithms & the EU: Interview with Aída Ponce Del Castillo

The Gig Economy Project

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1 year ago

Workers, algorithms & the EU: Interview with Aída Ponce Del Castillo

As we approach the end of 2023, things are happening when it comes to the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union.

After intense negotiations, provisional agreements have been found between the EU institutions on the much-debated AI Act and the lower profile but nonetheless crucially important Platform Work Directive, part of which is about how to regulate the use of algorithmic systems in managing platform workers.

What are these agreements likely to mean for the future of the relationship between algorithms and workers in Europe?

To find out, the Gig Economy Project is joined by Aída Ponce Del Castillo, Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels, Belgium. Aída is a lawyer by training and her research focuses on the legal, ethical, social and regulatory issues surrounding emerging technologies, including AI.

GEP spoke to Ponce Del Castillo about:

01:40: Why should workers care about AI regulation at work?

3:14: The algorithmic management section of the Platform Work Directive

18:51: Is the AI Act “deregulatory regulation”?

27:00: EU legislation still to come on artificial intelligence at work

33:31: Are regulators catching up with changes in technology and work?