AI’s new workforce: data-labelling industry spreads globally

AUTHOR: Madhumita Murgia Via FT.com (adapted & shortened repost) On the fringes of the Indian city of Kolkata, in the dusty, crowded neighbourhood of Metiabruz, 460 young women are working at the vanguard of artificial intelligence. The women, mostly from the local Muslim community, are helping to train computer vision algorithms used in autonomous vehicles…

Why do emerging AI guidelines emphasize ethics over human rights?

AUTHOR: Alison Berthet Via Openglobalrights.org It’s clear that regulation of AI must start now, but why do emerging frameworks primarily talk about ethics rather than law and human rights? Artificial intelligence. Everyone talks about it, many pretend to understand it, but how many of us truly measure its disruptive potential? Without being as alarmist as Yuval…