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An invisible workforce is behind the scenes helping to make AI programs work in their specific contexts; some feel they are undervalued. 

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close share links Artificial intelligence is often framed in terms of headline-grabbing technology and dazzling promise. But some of the workers who enable these programs — the people who do things like code data, flag pictures, or work to integrate the programs into the workplace — are often overlooked or undervalued. “This is a common pattern in the social studies of technology,” said Madeleine Clare Elish, SM ’10, a senior research scientist at Google. “A focus on new technology, the latest innovation, comes at the expense of the humans who are working to actually allow that ...