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Alexandra Mateescu

July 2021

  • Melissa Harville checks the electronic visit verification app for her partner Kevin Hooper outside their home in Greenbrier, Arkansas.

    Automating care
    ‘We don’t deserve this’: new app places US caregivers under digital surveillance

    Electronic visit verification systems make homecare more difficult, trap people with disabilities, and cost more than paper timesheets. So why are they rolling out across the country?

June 2021

  • ‘Gig workers are simply asking for a fair and equal system that does not separate worker needs from human needs.’

    Uber and Lyft: woo drivers with stable pay, not short-term honeypots

    Rida Qadri and Alexandra Mateescu
    Gig companies want to win back labor through promotions and bonuses. But workers can see through the claims
  • ‘Systems that track a worker’s every movement and minute betray a deep cultural anxiety about the value of care and those who perform it.’

    Automating care
    Automating Care: about our new series on the rise of AI in caregiving

    A new series from Guardian US aims to scrutinize this monumental shift in the way society cares for those in need
  • ‘There is a growing faith that tech can fill this gap by rapidly building care systems at scale, with the help of artificial intelligence and remote monitoring.’

    Automating care
    ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers

    Alexandra Mateescu and Virginia Eubanks
    The care bots look less like robot butlers and nurses and more like pieces of code and algorithms – and they’re everywhere
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