labor

Technology now supports a workday that can continue uninterrupted, 24/7. AI is often imagined as something that will free us from labor and give us more time but that is not necessarily what we are experiencing.

Meshi & Jensen, Seeing Machines: Luba Elliott on the 2026 CVPR Art Gallery

And I think when you're hearing people being critical of algorithms, what they mean are highly optimized engines designed to extract value from you, whether that's your labor, because you're working in an Amazon warehouse and it's trying to optimize every micro movement of your body, or trying to optimize the amount of attention that you pay to something.

Trevor Paglen, Strange Rules: Protocol Art at the Venice Biennale