Casilli

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🇫🇷 Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris I write books 📚 Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)📚 and documentaries 🎥In the Belly of AI (2025)🎥

It’s been… hem, strange to see the positive attention the book has received in newspapers over the last few days, from centre-left The Hankyoreh to conservative중앙일보 JoongAng Ilbo and even the decidedly right-wing The Dong-A Ilbo (동아일보). Don’t get me wrong: as an author, that’s gratifying. But as someone who still thinks political categories matter, it is also slightly unsettling. Perhaps the book reads less radical than I thought. Luckily, there was also this photo. The person who shared it with me insisted that it showed a seven-feet-tall 3D display of my book in a bookstore. I was skeptical. A giant promotional installation seemed somewhat unlikely for a 500-page academic essay. Looking closer at the picture (and looking up the bookstore where it was taken) reassured me. The book cover appears enormous only because the photograph was taken as a closeup from above the counter. Not any counter. That’s Gnal, the legendary Seoul National University bookstore. Gnal is the last remaining brick and mortar venue in Korea specializing in the humanities and social sciences, and it played an important role in the student movement of the 1980s and ‘90s. At one point, its owner Kim Dong-Woo was detained under the accusation of selling “subversive books”. He was released only after fierce student protests. The name Gnal comes from a poem by Shim Hoon and roughly means “When That Day Comes.” I can’t help noticing the paradoxical resonance between that name and the Korean title of my book: “The Robots Are Not Coming”. Automated dystopia will not prevail, while the hope for a more humane future is more resilient as long as someone is still animated by the unyielding refusal to give up on society.
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INDL-9 conference cfp submit until 30 April 2026
Conférence Antonio Casilli Assemblée nationale
Séminaire EHESS histoire du travail du clic
Séminaire EHESS histoire du travail du clic
IA en perspective 1
Excerpts interview Prof. Antonio A. Casilli, ‘Le Iene’, 11 Jan. 2026 (ITA)
Egypt DiPLab report 1
Antonio A. Casilli keynote at the Cooperative AI conference, Istanbul Planlama Ajansı.
Sam Altman
DiPLab seminar Martin tironi 21 Nov 2025, ISC-PIF, Paris, 3pm CET.
Amazon MTurk
Forbes Amazon layoffs
Mediapart alerte
Italian Tech Resistance locandina
DiPLab seminar welcomes Tim Christiaens, Francesca Ciulli and Ivana Vranjes for this academic year kick off session (Fri. 26 September 2025, 3:00 PM CET)
Charlie Kirk💨
LinkedIn
If there were a Nobel Prize for being a fucking joke, Geoffrey Hinton would win it hands down.
Zuckerberg interview Dwarkesh Patel
Outlier
WORK2025 Turku Finland
2025: OpenAI’s employee claims that GPT-5 invented entirely new math.
McKinsAI
In the belly of AI (documentary 2025)
INDL 8 conference 10-12 Sept 2025 Bologna Italy registration is free but mandatory (deadline: 20 Aug 2025)
Register for INDL8 Bologna Italy 10-12 Sept 2025
Seminar DiPLab Francisca Gutierrez Crocco
DiPLab seminar on delivery apps labor conditions. Paris, 3 July, 3:30pm
Buenos Aires scree based concierge: this is not tech, it’s deportation.
Biblioteca Vallicelliana exterior, Rome.
Alan Turing
Séminaire Evan Selinger à Paris 23 mai Maison de la Recherche 17h.
Come hear philosopher Evan Selinger in conversation with Antonio Casilli in Paris on May 23 at 5 p.m.
WSJ prompt engineer 2025
Esade DigitalWORK Casilli
New Technology, Work & Employment DiPLab
INDL 8 Bologna 10-12 September 2025
ETUI casilli webinar
Barcelona facebook moderators
Mediapart marine le pen sentenced.
In the belly of AI screenshot
Time Kenya ChatGPT
Data workers migrations
Data work Europe compensation
Encore project report DiPLab
Tech goons
Gaslighting
Trump fascists truth sanity Smithsonian
Ai Assisi friar’s declaration 1
Thin skinned fascist 1
A dimly lit factory. Motionless workers lie on the floor. A giant robot approaches—until the lighting shifts, revealing the face of a smirking middle-aged executive in its place.
Empereur Ming Flash Gordon
DiPLab policy memo The human cost of DeepSeek1
DiPLab policy memo The human cost of DeepSeek
Casilli at Yale
Waiting for robots book talk Yale Casilli Posada
Meme historian theory archive
Les sacrifiés de l’IA x 5