Digital Twins? The Future of Work?
(Digital Twins, AI, and the Future of Work)
2 AVAILABLE TIMES:
Mon, May 12, 2025, 16:00 UTC
Wed, May 14, 2025, 16:00 UTC
What if your career had a shadow version of you — always learning, always optimizing, always on?
Welcome to a world where Digital Twins aren’t just for jet engines and hospitals. They’re becoming the proxy professionals of the AI era — a second self trained on your CV, your habits, your values. They attend interviews. They negotiate gigs. They monitor your skills gaps and suggest micro-credentials. Maybe they even decide what you should be doing — and for whom.
But who owns that twin, anyway? Who operates it? Where does it ‘reside’?
Who gets to decide what it learns? What happens when your digital self is more productive than you are? What if it gets a better job than you do?
What happens when our labor, identity, and potential are modeled, cloned, and deployed on our behalf? Is this the future of personal agency — or its precise opposite? In this General Seminar we will discuss such things.
Could Digital Twins become the ultimate freelance agent? A career concierge that tirelessly seeks out your next opportunity?
Or will they become gatekeepers — algorithmic versions of ourselves caught in the same power asymmetries we were hoping to escape?
And who benefits most when the future of hiring, managing, and even being a worker becomes data-driven?
In this 90-minute Seminar: We'll sketch speculative near-futures where AI doesn’t just support your job hunt — it runs it.
You’ll create artifacts from imagined HR systems, job ads written for AI, and dashboards for managing fleets of professional twins.
We’ll interrogate the possible: Who are the winners? Who’s left out? What’s the new power dynamic when identity and labor are abstracted and delegated?
We’ll use the tools of Design Fiction and Institutional Science Fiction to surface the strange logics that might emerge in the job markets of 2030 and beyond.
Come with questions, leave with prototypes — and maybe a slightly altered sense of what “having a job” even, you know..means.
Your Digital Twin may already be working. The question is: for whom?
Welcome to a world where Digital Twins aren’t just for jet engines and hospitals. They’re becoming the proxy professionals of the AI era — a second self trained on your CV, your habits, your values. They attend interviews. They negotiate gigs. They monitor your skills gaps and suggest micro-credentials. Maybe they even decide what you should be doing — and for whom.
But who owns that twin, anyway? Who operates it? Where does it ‘reside’?
Who gets to decide what it learns? What happens when your digital self is more productive than you are? What if it gets a better job than you do?
What happens when our labor, identity, and potential are modeled, cloned, and deployed on our behalf? Is this the future of personal agency — or its precise opposite? In this General Seminar we will discuss such things.
Could Digital Twins become the ultimate freelance agent? A career concierge that tirelessly seeks out your next opportunity?
Or will they become gatekeepers — algorithmic versions of ourselves caught in the same power asymmetries we were hoping to escape?
And who benefits most when the future of hiring, managing, and even being a worker becomes data-driven?
In this 90-minute Seminar: We'll sketch speculative near-futures where AI doesn’t just support your job hunt — it runs it.
You’ll create artifacts from imagined HR systems, job ads written for AI, and dashboards for managing fleets of professional twins.
We’ll interrogate the possible: Who are the winners? Who’s left out? What’s the new power dynamic when identity and labor are abstracted and delegated?
We’ll use the tools of Design Fiction and Institutional Science Fiction to surface the strange logics that might emerge in the job markets of 2030 and beyond.
Come with questions, leave with prototypes — and maybe a slightly altered sense of what “having a job” even, you know..means.
Your Digital Twin may already be working. The question is: for whom?