LaborChain Model Cards for AI training labor exploitation
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’
The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence
Nathan Witkin on Twitter / X
Does anyone disagree that pretty much every piece of empirical evidence we have about actually existing AI points toward a labor-augmenting technology with a more-or-less ordinary risk profile (no worse than cars, guns, nuclear power, social media, etc.)?On the labor front, the…— Nathan Witkin (@NateWitkin) October 5, 2026
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AI writes the UI now. These tracks build the career it can't: frontend depth, product thinking, AI-powered building, and finding the work that pays for it.
Building pro-worker AI | Brookings
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson ask: What is pro-worker AI, and how can we build it?
‘Deskilling’: a dangerous side effect of AI use
Workers are increasingly reliant on the new technology
Guilded AI | Better data starts with aligned incentives
Guilded AI aligns the incentives of AI developers and human experts who produce training data and evaluations.
The real AI economy is being built by ordinary people
Far from Silicon Valley pitch decks, workers across Asia and Africa are bypassing tech industry hype to quietly rewire their daily jobs — one prompt, workflow, and local problem at a time.
Workers powering the AI industry face terrible conditions, but they shouldn’t have to – interview
Mark Graham, founder of the Fairwork initiative, notes that most of the labour in the AI supply chain is data work primarily done in low-income countries in poor conditions.
Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It'd Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers
Some organizings are finding themselves spending more on AI token fees than they do paying human salaries.
Using the Amazon Mechanical Turk Workforce - Amazon SageMaker AI
Use SageMaker AI to build, train, and host machine learning models in AWS.
New schemes teach the masses to build AI
Treating it like a craft is paying dividends
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker | TechCrunch
A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast -- and soften its threat to human jobs.
Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market • The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group
DAVID DEMING, CHRISTOPHER ONG, LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS This paper explores past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future impact of artificial intelligence (AI). The authors measure changes in the structure of the US labor market going back over a century in two ways. ...
Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage - The Blockchain Socialist
I spoke to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University and author of the Data Leverage substack, about what it actually means that AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity’s digital labor and what we can do about it. Nick has spent years researching how data functions as a bargaining tool, […]
