Document Type
Book Review
Abstract
In March 1964, the cover page of a popular German weekly magazine entitled Der Spiegel painted a frightening picture: An anthropomorphic robot with six mechanical arms commands an assembly line while a displaced human worker floats aimlessly in the foreground. Ejected from his station, the worker throws up his hands in despair next to a headline that reads, “Automation in Germany, the arrival of robots.” Over fifty years later, a cover page from the same magazine evoked similar themes: A giant robot arm yanks an office worker away from his computer under the headline, “You’re fired! How computers and robots steal our jobs – and which jobs will be safe.” The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Citation Information
Bernicchia-Freeman, Zoé.
"Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour by Antonio Aloisi and Valerio De Stefano."
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
60.3 (2023)
: 763-768.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/2817-5069.3929
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol60/iss3/7
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