“For the future, look to the past.” Bartleby, June 13th, 2019 Read more at The Economist …
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MIT Technology Review | The AI Gig Economy is Coming for You
The artificial-intelligence industry runs on the invisible labor of humans working in isolated and often terrible conditions—and the model is spreading to more …
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Financial Times | Alexa, please explain the dark side of artificial intelligence
“Alexa, please explain the dark side of artificial intelligence.” By Gillian Tett, Financial Times, May 29th, 2019 Read more at The Financial Times …
New York Post | The Secret ‘Ghost Workers’ Keeping the Internet Safe
Eric Spitznagel reports on Ghost Work and the individuals working "behind the curtain" to train AI platforms for large tech companies in the New York Post, May …
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Axios | The AI sharecroppers
May 15, 2019. Steve LeVine and Kaveh Waddell dig into the multi-billion dollar world of data labeling, featuring research from Ghost Work Read more …
Fast Company | An excerpt from Ghost Work
May 14 2019, excerpt from Ghost Work featured in Fast Company Read more at Fast Company …
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The Verge | The invisible labor that makes our technology run
May 13, 2019 feature coverage of Ghost Work, by tech writer Angela Chen, at the Verge Read the full feature on The Verge …
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Washington Post Global Opinions | The hidden global workforce that is still fighting for an eight-hour workday
By Mary L. Gray "In most of the industrialized world, May 1 is a national holiday commemorating the lives lost in the 1886 Chicago Haymarket massacre, which …
Ghost Work featured on Technology | Academics | Policy (TAP)
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass featured on Technology | Academics | Policy (TAP), a forum for scholarly debate …
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The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain
Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri have published an article for the Harvard Business Review asking, “just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence?” Whether …
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Talk: Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce
On November 2, 2015 Mary Gray gave a talk at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society where she discusses her findings from a two-year collaborative …
Report: Platformation. Greetings from the future of work!
On September 9, 2015, the Data & Society Research Institute hosted Platformation, a one-day summit that brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to …
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