Ass. Prof. Dr. James Steinhoff

About

James Steinhoff is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin in Ireland. During his fellowship at WI, James is researching the automation of software production labour. He aims to contribute to a better socio-economic understanding of automation in the particular context of software, which involves entirely different labour processes and automation technologies than conventional industrial production, on which most research has been focused. He is author of Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (2021, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-author of Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (2019, Pluto).  James holds a PhD in Media Studies from University of Western Ontario and has held postdoctoral positions at University of Washington and University of Toronto.

Research Group: Research Syntheses (19.05.-19.06.2025)