Aiha Nguyen

Aiha Nguyen is the Director of the Labor Futures Initiative at Data & Society Research Institute where she guides research and engagement at the intersection of technology and labor. Aiha have conducted research on workplace monitoring and algorithmic management including the resulting privacy concerns of workers and changing labor conditions. She has authored several studies including “The Constant Boss: Work Under Digital Surveillance,” and coauthored “The Privacy Trap” and “Last Place in the AI First Economy: How the AI Industry Relies on Worker Disempowerment.” Most recently, Aiha is leading a multi-year inquiry into generative AI’s labor impacts which includes a series of public talks and publications including a primer and a framing document that weaves together the social, political and economic mechanisms that scaffold the AI economy.