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Algorithms don’t care: how AI worsens the double burden for Indonesia’s female gig workers

  • Written by Suci Lestari Yuana, Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Indonesian female online drivers are having dinner together

Artificial intelligence is often celebrated as the future of work. It is efficient, innovative and neutral. Yet, for many women in Indonesia’s gig economy, AI feels like a source of mounting pressure.

In my recent research on female gig workers in Indonesia, I examine what I call AI colonialism. This term describes how colonial influence...

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