Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
Labelers training AI say they're overworked, underpaid and exploited by big American tech companies
Digital workers in Kenya had to sift through horrific online content to train AI, but say they were underpaid, overworked, and got inadequate mental health support. So they're fighting back.
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.
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.
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.
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
Paid Program: Why More Women Are Needed in AI
When the world of AI isn’t inclusive, it creates biases in what the data shows and how it’s used.
There’s a Mass Rebellion Against AI in the Workplace
Only nine percent of office workers trust their company's AI tools with "business-critical" tasks, a new survey found.
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.
Workers around the world are not getting what they want from AI
A survey of workers in 60 countries found that a majority of those facing the threat of AI-driven job loss do not trust companies or governments to manage the transition fairly.
A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word ``intelligence'' is being...
AI Is Forcing Employees to Work Harder Than Ever
Another new study adds to the understanding that AI is actually making work more demanding for employees instead of making it easier.
"AI" is Automated Inequality
Tech bros still dominate the discussions about so-called "AI" with false claims. Even most "AI"-critical researchers spend much of their time meticulously debunking (always only a subset of) claims, leaving vast areas of the economic consequences of "AI" unexplored. (Even the "AI"-evangelist Economi
AI in the workplace vs. AI in education
Quoting Dan Willingham: Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well.
Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes
Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
Artificial Intelligence and gender equality | UN Women – Headquarters
The world has a gender equality problem, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) mirrors the gender bias in our society. Although globally more women are accessing the internet every year, in low-income countries, only 20 per cent are connected. The gender digital divide creates a data gap that is reflected in the gender bias in AI.
