James Muldoon

Books

• Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming our Relationships (Faber, 2026).
• Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI (Canongate/Bloomsbury, 2024) (co-author with Mark Graham and Callum Cant).
  Shortlisted: Best Business Book of the Year 2025 (Handelsblatt)

Articles

• Cruel Companionship: How AI companions exploit loneliness and commodify intimacy, New Media & Society (2026) (co-author with Julia Parke).
• The Politics of Artificial Intelligence Supply Chains, AI & Society (2026) (co-author with Ana Valdivia and Adam Badger).
• AI Regulation in the EU and the World of Work: Critiquing Inevitability, for Resistance, Global Political Economy (2026) (co-author with Phoebe Moore and Carlo Petrucci).
• ‘We can see a savage’: A case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms, AI & Society (2026) (co-author with Arsenii Alenichev, Jonathan D. Shaffer, Patricia Kingori, Koen Peeters Grietens and Luc Rocher).
• Global Data Empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation ecosystems of the United States and China, Big Data & Society (2025) (co-author with Tongyu Wu and Bingqing Xia)
• The Poverty of Ethical AI: Impact Sourcing and the AI Supply Chain, AI & Society (2024) (co-author with Callum Cant, Funda Ustek and Mark Graham)
• A Typology of AI Data Work, Big Data & Society (2024) (co-author with Callum Cant, Boxi Wu and Mark Graham)
• Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power, Philosophy & Technology (2024) (co-author with Boxi Wu)
• Empowering Digital Democracy, Perspectives on Politics (co-author with Roberta Fischli) (2024)
• Matchmakers: Placement Agencies and Digital Platforms in the UK Childcare Market, Work in the Global Economy (2024) (co-author with Paul Apostolidis and Natalie Sedacca)
• The Global Gig Economy: How Transport Platform Companies Adapt to Regulatory Challenges—A Comparative Analysis of Six Countries, Industrial Law Journal (2024) (co-author with Ping Sun)
• Racism and food delivery platforms: shaping migrants’ work experiences and future expectations in the United Kingdom and Chile, (2024) Ethnic and Racial Studies (co-author with Macarena Bonhomme).
• ‘Neither work nor Leisure’: Motivations of Microworkers in the United Kingdom across Three Digital Platforms, New Media & Society (2023) (co-author with Paul Apostolidis).
• Reimagining the Digital Economy, Renewal: A journal of social democracy (2023).
• Data-Owning Democracy or Digital Socialism?, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2022).
• Algorithmic Domination in the Gig Economy, European Journal of Political Theory (2022) (co-author with Paul Raekstad).
   

• Artificial intelligence
• Digital labour
• Digital platforms
• Global supply chains

• Research Fellow, University of Oxford
• Affiliated Fellow, the Information Society Project, Yale Law School

• Understanding Artificial Intelligence
• Exploring Artificial Intelligence