Antonio A. Casilli

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Antonio A. Casilli is a prominent sociologist and digital labor theorist whose work fundamentally challenges prevailing narratives about automation and the future of work. Based at Télécom Paris, Casilli has built a distinguished research agenda around the hidden human labor that underpins artificial intelligence and digital platforms — a field he has helped define and popularize internationally. His landmark work, *En attendant les robots* (2019), which has garnered over 43 citations, offers a penetrating investigation into "click work" — the often invisible, low-paid micro-tasks performed by millions of workers worldwide that make AI systems function. Rather than accepting the dominant techno-utopian narrative of robots displacing human workers, Casilli argues that automation myths obscure a reality of expanded global labor exploitation. His 2021 English-language contribution deepens this critique, demonstrating that high-tech innovation frequently generates more labor than it eliminates, particularly in the Global South. Casilli's research has significantly reshaped how scholars, policymakers, and students understand platform economies, data work, and digital capitalism. By exposing the human cost behind the illusion of fully automated intelligence, he remains one of the most provocative and essential voices in contemporary technology studies.