Keynote by Phoebe Moore on The social relations of AI production

Professor Phoebe Moore from the Essex Business School will deliver one of the two keynote speeches at the 2025 EAEPE Conference. Below you find a short outline of her talk on The social relations of AI production:

Private and public sector bodies, and Big Tech companies, aggressively harvest personal data with a logic of extraction that mirrors historical forms of colonialism. Datasets are used to advance profits and shareholder interests; and managers feed the same data into machines, where new technological systems and tools advance the commodification of social relations. The hegemonic drive is for AI production, but data subjects experience a new violence, where any possibility for social relations outside of the restrictions of capitalism is disappearing. Ultimately, workers’ capacity to consent, both to data capture, and to forms of profiling, are under threat. In this keynote talk Professor Moore will focus on increased coercion exceeding consent, the rise in inequalities, and fall of autonomies in the social relations of AI production.

For more information on the 37^th EAEPE Annual Conference 2025 in Athens, please visit the general conference page.