While Big Tech promotes AI as a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity, James Muldoon exposes a different reality hidden beneath this surface: a precarious global workforce of millions that make AI possible. He examines the power structures that govern digital work and explains what we need to do to build a more just digital future.

He is in conversation with Aida Garcia-Lazaro. 

This Institute for Policy Research event took place on 12 March 2026.

Kate Hamblin and Emily Kenway: The work of care (Institute for Policy Research)

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