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Data Workers

Human labor is an integral part of AI development. This work is often underpaid, exploitative, and rendered invisible. Here's our work on the matter.

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The logo for the Data Workers' Inquiry project, which features the outline of a monitor screen in red with a white megaphone on it and the words "Data Workers' Inquiry" in the middle.
Labor
Data Workers

Data Workers' Inquiry

Centering the experiences of data workers in machine learning by using the Workers' Inquiry approach to uncover opportunities for collaborative knowledge exchange and collective organizing. Go to https://data-workers.org to find zines, reports, documentaries, podcasts and more created by 16 data workers from 4 continents.

Illustration of a woman with dark skin and long curly black hair sitting on a smartphone that is floating above the ground. She wears a yellow jumpsuit and is holding an open laptop. Around her float fragments of images from social media that have been hidden by privacy images. The words "#content moderator," and "Remove" appear next to these hidden images. The background is a vivid purple.
Possible Futures
Data Workers

Imagining a Safer Future for Content Moderators

In a cozy room filled with enough natural sunlight and adorned with calming art, a team of content moderators begins their day with a mindfulness session. Each desk in the room has a red button that moderators can press for immediate help when the content is too distressing for them.

An illustraion with a bunch of concentric circles and semi circles in black. The background is white. Exploited workers
Data Workers
Human Rights

Exploited workers fueling AI

Showing the extent to which vulnerable populations like refugees are both exploited laborers fueling “AI” systems and those most harmed by them. Read our papers and articles to learn more.

Screenshot of a slide with a green background. Surveillance Wage Theft written on the side, and with text 1) Stand-Up Meetings $2,500-$2,600 2. Mentor App $1,875-$7,800, 3. AI Powered Cameras
Data Workers
Labor

Worker surveillance and wage theft

Focusing on how algorithmic management and workplace surveillance allows corporations like Amazon to steal wages, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.