The Filipino workers at the sharp end of AI

On the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, tens of thousands of IT workers ‘annotate’ the data required to run the algorithms owned by the global leaders in AI. Their highly precarious working conditions reveal an exploitative industrial system on a global scale.Read the full article

By HesaMag, Théophile Simon

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Labour

, Labour rights, Exploitation, Digital economy, Science and technology, Future of work

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