ECONOMY

Mophat and Richard launch nonprofit for African data workers rights

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16 March 2024 15h33

Mophat and Richard who are featured in the WSJ piece have since formed a nonprofit organization Techworker Community Africa and are seeking new ways to support and advance labor rights and economic opportunities for Kenyan and African data workers. 10/ http://
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AI Industry Logic and Economic Inequality for the Majority

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16 March 2024 15h24

In what universe is this the path toward beneficial AI for everyone? What’s happening here is a stark illustration of the logic of the AI industry and the long term economic precarity coming for all but a tiny few if we follow it to its conclusion. 6/

Data annotation work: Silicon Valley promises versus harsh worker reality

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16 March 2024 15h24

Silicon Valley loves to say data annotation work provides economic opportunity. The tragic thing is it really could if platforms were designed to uplift workers by providing them jobs with regular working hours, security, and stable incomes. The reality is so far from this. 4/

Remotasks AI platform suspends operations in Kenya suddenly

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16 March 2024 15h24

Several workers in Kenya told me – confirmed by local media reports – that Remotasks, one of the largest AI data work platforms in the country that Scale AI owns and OpenAI uses, has suddenly suspended their operations in Kenya. When workers try to log on, they see this. 2/

Data Annotation Workers Face Exploitation by AI Industry Platforms

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16 March 2024 15h24

For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/

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Machine Learning Python Algorithms for Financial Risk Management

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16 March 2024 14h49

#MachineLearning for Financial Risk Management with #Python — #Algorithms for Modeling Risk: http://
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Data Science Applications in Economics and Finance Analytics

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16 March 2024 14h49

#DataScience for #Economics and #Finance — Methodologies & Applications: http://
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#BigData #Analytics #fintech #AnomalyDetection #PredictiveAnalytics #PredictiveModeling #MachineLearning #AI #PrescriptiveAnalytics