James Muldoon: The hidden human labour powering AI (Institute for Policy Research)

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Mar 24, 202600:59:39Education

While Big Tech promotes AI as a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity, James Muldoon exposes a different reality hidden beneath this surface: a precarious global workforce of millions that make AI...

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