Ifeoma Ajunwa
Ifeoma Yvonne Ajunwa (born 26 October 1980)[2] is a Nigerian-American writer, AI Ethics legal scholar, sociologist, and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School where she is also Associate Dean and Founding Director of the A.I. and Future of Work Program
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[edit]- When I talk about worker quantification, I'm really putting forth this theory that we now have really a paradigm where the worker is reduced to numbers, they're reduced to quantified data points in a manner and to a degree not previously seen in history. Yes, worker quantification is an iteration of Taylorism, so it's not completely new, right? With Taylorism, at the start of the 19th century, you had Francis Winslow Taylor really pushing this idea that to become more efficient, to become more productive, managers needed to really understand the work process to the minutiae, they really needed to go out into the factories, the warehouses and watch what workers were doing and try to quantify the work tasks. In doing so, really attempt to standardize the work tasks such that any worker can then be taught how to do it efficiently and as productively as possible.
