The Filipino workers at the sharp end of AI
2024
29
8-22
artificial intelligence ; precarious employment ; working conditions ; trade union document
Technology
English
"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."
Digital;Paper
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