Brown Bag Talk

Tariq Adely is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University. His research focuses on the intersection of language, technology, and labour in the Arabic-speaking world. His current project uses ethnographic methods to examine how IT workers in Amman, Jordan transform and reconceptualize Arabic as they produce artificial intelligence (AI) language models within a transnational tech industry built on inequitable divisions of labour and extractive approaches to local knowledge.