General Seminar S06/E05 - Digital Twins & The Future of Work

​Are Digital Twins the future of work?

What if your career had a shadow version of you — always learning, always optimizing, always on?

Could Digital Twins become the ultimate freelance agent?

A career concierge that tirelessly seeks out your next opportunity?

Or will they become gatekeepers — algorithmic versions of ourselves caught in the same power asymmetries we were hoping to escape?

Welcome to a world where Digital Twins can be our creative muses — or our pestering shadows.

Today, Digital Twins are becoming the proxy professionals of the AI era — a second self trained on your CV, your habits, your values. They attend interviews. They negotiate gigs. They monitor your skills gaps and suggest micro-credentials. Maybe they even decide what you should be doing — and for whom.

But who owns that twin?

This General Seminar asks: What happens when our labor, identity, and potential are modeled, cloned, and deployed on our behalf?

​Is this the future of personal agency — or its precise opposite?

​Could Digital Twins become the ultimate freelance agent? A career concierge that tirelessly seeks out your next opportunity?

​Or will they become gatekeepers — algorithmic versions of ourselves caught in the same power asymmetries we were hoping to escape?

​And who benefits most when the future of hiring, managing, and even being a worker becomes data-driven?

​In this 90-minute Seminar we’ll sketch speculative near-futures where AI doesn’t just support your job hunt — it runs it.

​You’ll create artifacts from imagined HR systems, job ads written for AI, and dashboards for managing fleets of professional twins.

​We’ll interrogate the possible: Who are the winners? Who’s left out? What’s the new power dynamic when identity and labor are abstracted and delegated?

​We’ll explore the implications of a world where your career is no longer just yours — but a shared, algorithmically optimized resource.

​We’ll use the tools of Design Fiction and Institutional Science Fiction to surface the strange logics that might emerge in the job markets of 2030 and beyond.

​Come with questions, leave with prototypes — and maybe a slightly altered sense of what “having a job” even means.

​Your Digital Twin may already be working. The question is: for whom?

Join me for General Seminar S06/E05 and let's go into the near future and try to imagine what kinds of Digital Twins we would prefer — if we'd want them at all!