… Profits “border on the unthinkable” For economists, labor analysts, and policymakers studying AI’s effects on the economy, the Samsung dispute is not a conventional wage negotiation, but “one of the most significant labor actions we have seen,” Adrian Brown, chief executive of Windfall Trust think … …
… Its harms are diffuse: disinformation , labor displacement , surveillance, market concentration. …
… 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. …
… 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… …
… Another hall was lined with elaborate booths run by top AI and quantitative-trading firms. …