Generative AI Is All About the Money
What the social innovation community needs to understand about Silicon Valley’s current hype cycle.
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Do All AI Systems Need to Be Explainable?
“Explainable AI” can bridge the gap between AI outputs and human expertise, but a balance needs to be struck between explainability and performance.
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Turk Wars: How AI Threatens the Workers Who Fuel It
The much-hyped AI tools of the future are being built by a globally dispersed army of data workers.
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Unrigging the Gig Economy
How badly do platform companies treat their workers? A recent study rated most major firms zero on a 10-point scale.
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Building Union Power to Rein in the AI Boss
The most powerful tool that workers and communities around the world have to fight exploitative new technologies.
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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About
Outsourcing and contract employment models have allowed the tech industry to obscure its terrible labor practices for years. A surging movement of these workers has had enough.
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The Long Shadow of Workplace Surveillance
How “little tech” is driving workplace surveillance—and what can be done to push back.
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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late
Tech titans are fostering new forms of digital colonialism, both within wealthy countries and on the global stage. But it’s not too late to build a digital economy that works for everyone.
Data-Mining for the Land Mines
AI is helping to locate land mines to speed their removal.
The Urgent Need to Reimagine Data Consent
Data is a powerful tool in addressing contemporary challenges, but current consent models don’t go far enough to align with community expectations and protect vulnerable populations.