We must curb the power of Silicon Valley and protect those who speak up about the harms of AI.
By Timnit Gebru for The Guardian on December 6, 2021
For truly ethical AI, its research must be independent from big tech
ADCU initiates legal action against Uber’s workplace use of racially discriminatory facial recognition systems
ADCU has launched legal action against Uber over the unfair dismissal of a driver and a courier after the company’s facial recognition system failed to identify them.
By James Farrar, Paul Jennings and Yaseen Aslam for The App Drivers and Couriers Union on October 6, 2021
Big Tech is propped up by a globally exploited workforce
Behind the promise of automation, advances of machine learning and AI, often paraded by tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Tesla, lies a deeply exploitative industry of cheap, human labour. In an excerpt published on Rest of the World from his forthcoming book, “Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism,” Phil Jones illustrates how the hidden labour of automation is outsourced to marginalised, racialised and disenfranchised populations within the Global North, as well as in the Global South.
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