Gabriel Alcaras
I investigate the practices of generative artificial intelligence in the workplace.
Postdoctoral researcher
- Github: @gaalcaras
- Twitter: @gaalcaras
Gabriel Alcaras is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po. He joined the médialab in September 2024 as part of the “Ecology of LLM Practices” (EL2MP) project. The project seeks to understand how generative artificial intelligence - Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama, etc. - fit into ordinary working practices. What tasks are delegated to these systems, and with what effects? How do these artificial intelligences affect the hierarchical order and moral economies of professional worlds? What is the nature of the relationship between workers and these programs? To answer these questions, Gabriel is working with the médialab's design team to develop innovative qualitative methods that will enable him to follow the use of LLMs over the long term with great precision.
More broadly, Gabriel is interested in the production of digital infrastructures, the use of digital technologies in the world of work, and methodological issues (qualitative, quantitative, and computational) in the social sciences. In November 2022, he defended his PhD thesis entitled “Code control. How writing software became industrialized”, devoted to Git, a hegemonic development infrastructure for collective code production. He was awarded the Prix du Jeune Auteur by the journal Sociologie du travail, for his 2020 article “Industrial Public Goods. A genesis of the insertion of Free Software in Silicon Valley ” (First Prize Ex-Æquo). He is also a member of the editorial board of the online journal RESET - Social Science Research on the Internet.)