Freedom at Work: Understanding, Alienation, and the AI-Driven Workplace

Abstract This paper explores a neglected normative dimension of algorithmic opacity in the workplace and labor market. It argues that explanations algorithms decisions are noninstrumental value. That is because structure function parts social world form basis for reflective clarification our practical orientation toward institutions play central role life. Using this account value explanations, diagnoses distinctive defects economic which reliance on AI can encourage, lead to alienation.