Depending on your perspective, technological development has been saving us from drudgery, or destroying our livelihoods, for centuries. From the very first domestication of animals we’ve been finding

Evaluated by a robot. An experimental-ethnographic study of the automation of the recruitment process in a Swedish municipality

In a unique project the researchers will study the differences between an AI-based interview robot's and human recruiters' evaluations of jobseekers in a Swedish municipality during a year.

Automating authority: Accuracy, assessment, acceptance and legitimacy of AI decision-making in the public sector

The aim of this project is to build an interdisciplinary research environment that analyzes the proliferation of AI in the public sector, its impact on the decisions being made and its effects for democracy.

Big Data & Society Abstract In recent years, both private and public organizations across contexts have begun implementing AI technologies in their recruitment processes. This transition is typicall

Philosophy & Technology 36 Abstract The last decade has seen significant improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including robotics, machine vision, speech recognition, and text ge

Fors, Vaike, Berg, Martin and Brodersen, Meike. The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures: Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. Abstract Health services and medical

Ghost Platform: Generating the "Complex Image" of Data, Labour, and Logistics

This project aims to create a platform that makes visible the conflicts in transport logistics that are mostly being concealed from public view.

How will Ai impact the development of human potential? According to several prominent thinkers that have discussed the future of work and automation, there are two main scenarios for how the developmen

What is the future of work in terms of justice and equality? At a big conference at the Institute for Futures Studies which included 17 speakers, this question was discussed by researchers from politi

Göran Finnveden, Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis and Vice-president for sustainable development at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.  Pernilla Hagbert, Post Doc researcher at the division