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Life Under the Algorithm
AI Now's Katie Wells co-authors this piece with Veena Dubal in the Fall 2026 Issue, exploring how algorithmic wages and prices are reshaping our lives.
Dissent Magazine
Sep 8, 2026
Stop Saying There’s a Nursing Shortage
Yet rather than add nurses, many hospitals are paring back, sometimes turning to apps where they can hire nurses as gig workers. Such apps often allow hospitals to avoid paying for benefits for these workers, says Katie Wells, a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute, which has studied gig apps for nursing. “Lean staffing has just become the norm."
TIME
Aug 7, 2026
Silicon Valley Is Turning Nurses Into Gig Workers—With Katie J. Wells
The Uber model is finally coming for healthcare. Katie J. Wells joins Paris Marx on the Tech Won't Save Us podcast to discuss how much the healthcare gig apps resemble Uber’s rollout, why they aren’t being properly regulated, and the effects they’re having on staff and patients alike.
The Nation
Jun 11, 2026
An Uber-like app for nursing gigs?
Reporter Varsha Bansal talks to Katie Wells, a senior fellow at AI Now Institute, about gig nursing apps — think Uber or Hinge for nursing.
Proof News
Jun 2, 2026
AI is disrupting nursing as Uber-like apps grow and set earnings and work schedules
The gig-work apps for nursing share parallels with Uber and other established gig-work apps, said AI Now's Katie Wells. For both groups of apps, algorithms play a prominent role in how users work, from determining pay to handling potential account deactivations.
Business Insider
May 3, 2026
The tech industry is applying an Uber-style ‘gigification’ model to nursing. It means no workers’ comp, AI managers, and ‘surveillance wages’
In a similar vein to ridesharing apps, the "gigification" of health care might come at the expense of worker security and even allow companies to sidestep regulations, according to AI Now's new report on the state of nursing gig work.
Fortune
Apr 23, 2026
‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds
Billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the “Uber for nursing” industry in an effort to expand gig work in the healthcare sector, according to a report published on Tuesday.
The Guardian
Apr 21, 2026