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The lawmakers’ letter comes as executives including the leaders of Tesla Inc., Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet are slated to meet senators Wednesday afternoon at a closed-door AI summit hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who was not among those signing the document.
Democratic lawmakers are pressing the top tech firms to open up about the conditions of their “ghost work” — unseen laborers like those labeling data and rating responses who have become pivotal to the artificial intelligence boom.
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The underpaid workers on platforms like Mechanical Turk who train AI models could be replaced by those same systems.
The technology powering many apps and services seems automatic. But anthropologist Mary L. Gray explains how there are millions of hidden workers behind the screen who are key to making it all work.