The Biden Administration Signal That It's Going to Be Changing How It Looks at the Classification of Gig Workers

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The Biden administration signal that it's going to be changing how it looks at the classification of gig workers so I'm going to be watching that and I've also shouted out Vena DuBall because she flagged for me a lot of the fights coming down the pike potentially next year. Chris: There there'll be a sort of ramping up of the student surveillance industrial complex to try and fight back against all these new methods that students have for cheating. The other thing we didn't get to talk about is amazon basically came out and said Alexa was a failure you know um and so I was super interested like it's shocking that they admitted that but I am pretty sure this coming year

Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, and Gita Jackson to discuss the year in tech, including Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the biggest stories of the year, what they’ll be watching in 2023, and the worst person in tech of 2022.

Brian Merchant is the author of The One Device and Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. Chris Gilliard is a Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council. Gita Jackson is a tech and culture journalist. You can follow them on Twitter at @bcmerchant, @hypervisible, and @xoxogossipgita.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Paris wrote about Netflix and streaming services for Business Insider.
Brian wrote about how 2022 was a disastrous year for the tech industry for The Atlantic.
Chris and Kishonna Gray wrote about digital migration and what it means for Black users for Wired.
Gita wrote a review of Dwarf Fortress’s Stream release.
Part of the show discusses a Twitter policy that was briefly launched to restrict sharing of links from several other social media platforms. It was rescinded after the initial discussion.

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