HUMHUM-005 — Workforce Displacement Anxiety
AI Industry Conceals Dependence on Exploited Global South Data Workers
3/5Sector: TechnologyGeography: GlobalStage: DevelopIngested: —
Executive Summary
Machine learning systems rely on a $13.7 billion annotation industry staffed largely by low-paid Global South workers whose rights are routinely disregarded. Boards risk reputational, supply-chain ethics, and regulatory exposure by treating data labour as an invisible input rather than a governed dependency.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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