… In eight years of working data annotation jobs at different companies, Kinyua experienced low pay, exploitative conditions, a lack of labor protections, and gender and class biases, she said. …
… Its harms are diffuse: disinformation , labor displacement , surveillance, market concentration. …
… The Chinese government has warned that AI development would bring “inevitable” job losses due to a restructuring of the labor market. …
… Milagros Miceli, a sociologist and computer scientist researching labor conditions in outsourced data work, told Rest of World the threat of automation can also be used as a tool to get workers to do more for less. “If there’s always the threat of having machines replace you as a worker, that serve… …
… By Rina Chandran Labor AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared. …
… While the increased efficiency and reduced labor costs have excited businesses, the public sector has also begun to view it as a tool for addressing social problems. …
… The impact will be hardest on entry-level workers, according to Mohsin Kazi, a compositing supervisor at DNEG, the eight-time Oscar-winning visual effects company behind Dune , Interstellar , and Blade Runner 2049 . “If AI tools begin handling tasks like cleanup, relighting, or even base compositin… …
… Indigenous groups worldwide are confronting data centers on their traditional land — and in some cases, collaborating with them. …
… The technology has been “tested and certified by third-party laboratories,” and the company constantly evaluates user behavior to determine if someone is “significantly older or younger than expected,” it said. …
… The populations outside of the West are still often simply treated as either cheap labor or as valuable data . …