AI Everywhere, Work Everywhere: Ten Years of Research at Télécom Paris on Human Contributions to Automation
Thursday 12 November, 2026, from 13.00 to 13.45, Télécom Paris
For nearly a decade, DIPLab at Télécom Paris has been studying the transformations in work brought about by automation… as well as the transformations in automation brought about by work.
Télécom Paris, 19 place Marguerite Perey F-91120 Palaiseau [getting there], amphi Thévenin
This lecture offers a journey through research conducted in fieldwork settings across more than thirty countries. In both the Global North and the Global South, this research seeks to make visible the activities, infrastructures, and people required for systems presented as autonomous to function. The aim is not only to understand what automation does to work, but also everything that automation still owes to human labour.