A conversation with Brian Chen, Veena Dubal, Clarissa Redwine, and JS Tan, moderated by Simon Torracinta

Join Dissent for an online event to launch our fall issue, Artificial Futures. We will discuss the current state of our technological economy, framed by a massive, economy-wide wager on Artificial Intelligence. Drawing from essays in our recent issue, the speakers will talk about the implications of the vast buildout of data centers and the resistance against it, the emergence of real-time algorithmic surveillance, and the current state of tech worker labor organizing.

Co-sponsored by Collective Action in Tech.

About the Speakers 

Brian J. Chen is the Policy Director of Data & Society. He writes about AI, technology, and politics. 

Veena Dubal is a professor of law and, by courtesy, anthropology at UC Irvine. 

Clarissa Redwine is a co-author of Against Tech Oligarchy. She is a tech worker and labor activist. She helped organize the industry’s first wall-to-wall union at Kickstarter in 2019. Her work in the labor movement has been featured on the BBC and in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Verge, TechCrunch, and many other news outlets. 

JS Tan is a co-author of Against Tech Oligarchy, a book about the rise of tech worker activism and the labor politics of Silicon Valley. He is getting his PhD at MIT and previously worked in tech. His work has been featured in the New York Times and MIT Technology Review, among other outlets, and his writing has appeared in the Drift, Jacobin, Foreign Policy, the Baffler, and the Guardian. Free to register.