Created by: Jiatong Ma, Yu Wang, Xinyi Tang

Overview: Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have become deeply embedded in the operational systems of Chinese food delivery platforms. These platforms integrate data from users, restaurants, and delivery riders through algorithmic systems, creating a highly datafied platform ecosystem. Our group explores the topic of AI-driven food delivery platforms, focusing on this key question: How do AI-driven food delivery platforms construct different algorithmic imaginaries and reinforce labour inequalities?

Created with: Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway, Capcut.

Concept

Poster description: This poster examines how AI algorithms on Chinese food delivery platforms discipline riders, intensify labor inequality, and demand invisible emotional labor, using a rainstorm delivery scenario to illustrate algorithmic control and the gap between customer perception and rider reality.

Development and Sketches

A delivery rider’s life — trapped in the algorithm.

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