By Mary L. Gray, cross-posting from the Social Media Collective blog My collaborator, Siddharth Suri, and I spent nearly 5 years studying a nascent but …
The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain
Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri have published an article for the Harvard Business Review asking, “just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence?” Whether …
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Spike in Online Gig Work: Flash in the Pan or Future of Employment?
Siddharth Suri and Mary L. Gray Most conventional jobs involve hierarchy. A boss divvies up work to the office’s full-time employees awaiting direction and a …
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Mary Gray talks with Benjamen Walker on Theory of Everything
ToE instaserf Andrew Callaway gets invited to do a TED ALPHA Talk on the sharing economy. Mary Gray (a real sharing economy expert) explains why we are anxious …
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LA Times Op-Ed: Your job is about to get “taskified”
Mary L. Gray published an Op-Ed from our crowdwork research in the Sunday’s Los Angeles Times’ print edition, published on January 10th, 2016 . It reflects on …
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Talk: Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce
On November 2, 2015 Mary Gray gave a talk at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society where she discusses her findings from a two-year collaborative …
Report: Platformation. Greetings from the future of work!
On September 9, 2015, the Data & Society Research Institute hosted Platformation, a one-day summit that brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to …
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