AI Intersections Database
About the Database
This database maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society. Further, the database catalogs civil society organizations, social movement actors, researchers, and other entities that are either actively doing work at these intersections, or are well suited for engagement on these issues via partnerships.
Featured Issue
See All IssuesThe "ghost work" of AI is done by low-paid workers across developing countries.
The hidden ghost work of data cleaning, image labeling, text processing, and content moderation is being performed by back-end workers across developing economies. Much has been written about the wage differentials in digital labor and the insufficient remuneration being paid to surveilled Global South workers doing the “janitorial" labor that keeps digital platforms healthy and productive. Not only this, it has also come to light that many AI assistants are in fact fully powered by real human agents working in low- and middle-income countries. When massive data sets are used to train AI systems, the individual images and videos involved are commonly tagged and labeled. There are millions of low-paid tech workers doing this back-end work.
Economic Justice