Events

Past Event

Mapping AI: Labor

March 4, 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York

Event Description 

This workshop explores multiple forms of labor exploitation at play in developing AI, from underpaid classification work to the theft of intellectual property, in addition to murky contracts and influence of AI on university labor.

This event also continues work started in February on the AI map, now adding the kinds of contracts Columbia has with vendors of AI tools, interventions into the availability of participants' content as training data, and/or identifications of data sources and kinds of work around the university.

Event Speakers

Event Information

Free and open to the public; registration required. Contact [email protected] with any questions. 

Hosted by the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University. Supported by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. 

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