Is Your Job Safe From AI? We Asked an Expert

Once the domain of speculative science-fiction writers, the new realities of automation and artificial intelligence are rapidly insinuating their way into how we think and act. It’s changing how the organizations we work in operate, and blowing up old assumptions of how a career—and, indeed, a life—might be constructed. It can all feel a little…

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Reimagining the future of data and AI labor in the Global South

Everyday tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and social media algorithms aren’t just powered by technology—they require human workers to sort through our content, labeling, tagging, transcribing, and processing data. Platforms to support this work have existed since at least 2005, but outsourcing labeling, often to workers in the Global South, has become increasingly lucrative over…

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AI tied to 7,000 job cuts in September: Challenger

Diving brief: Until now, more than 17,000 jobs have been directly awarded to artificial intelligence this year, the technological industry opening the way, The Challenger Open Society, Gray & Christmas, said in a recent report. Most of the cuts were announced in the second half. In September only, Challenger Monitoring 7,000 job cuts due specifically…

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Budget Blinds manager embraces AI in business

If you want to remain skeptical about the different technologies called with wrong “artificial intelligence”, you should probably not chat with Greg Dorfman during a presentation of AI. “It’s a real tool and I hope to make it a better tool,” Dorfman without a summit told me. “It has become a daily thing for me.”…

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