SHIFT engages with the stages of automation of the trucking industry, working with the sociopolitical, physical/spatial particulars of logistics. We rethink the role of the truckers union, and engage with it structurally to facilitate its transformation along with the introduction of network effects and consolidation of data collection.

Logistics, as the backbone of our global economic system, is at the forefront of automation. The biggest ports are almost fully automated. This logic of port automation is being pushed inland to next logical step of the supply chain, trucks.

In these times of uncertainties SHIFT seeks to use innovation/technological development as way to change and achieve economically distributed automation. Inherent in the technology of Ai are characteristics of distribution, that allow them to be co-opted in the good of a majority. The urgency to change narratives of Ai is key, it will only create unwanted consequences, if that is what we seek.