Rosemary Steup
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Rosemary Steup’s research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, labor, and automation, critically examining how human work persists in systems designed to replace it. Her most-cited paper, “Outsourcing Artificial Intelligence: Responding to the Reassertion of the Human Element into Automation” (2022, 9 citations), challenges the Silicon Valley narrative of a workerless future by documenting the hidden labor that props up autonomous systems. Steup shows that when AI and robotics fall short, human skills are reasserted to fill critical gaps—a phenomenon she terms the “outsourcing” of intelligence back to people. This work has shaped conversations in critical algorithm studies and science and technology studies (STS), revealing the material realities behind automation hype. Her contributions highlight how industrial ambitions outpace technological realities, forcing a reconsideration of what “autonomy” truly means. With growing influence among scholars of labor and technology, Steup’s research offers a vital corrective to futuristic visions, grounding them in the ongoing, often invisible, human work that makes automation possible.
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