Where does your implication that paying poverty $ is 'natural' and providing people with the resources to live in exchange for their labor is 'idealistic'? Where's your smoke for corps that could rn make changes to create safer streets & less impoverished workers, but refuse?
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Mophat and Richard launch nonprofit for African data workers rights
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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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Data annotation work: Silicon Valley promises versus harsh worker reality
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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/
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Remotasks AI platform suspends operations in Kenya suddenly
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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/
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Data Annotation Workers Face Exploitation by AI Industry Platforms
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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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Mental Health Quotient: Essential Business Metric for Companies
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Companies will soon recognize that the Employee Mental Health Quotient is as essential as revenue growth, EBITDA, and Net Promoter Score.
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Personal Development as Continuous Improvement Process
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Personal development is a continuous improvement process about how to use yourself effectively and efficiently.
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Female Leadership and AI: Business and Societal Imperative
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[#Article] Female leadership in the AI era: a business, strategic and societal imperative according to IBM EMEA https://actuia.com/actualite/le-leadership-feminin-a-lere-de-lia-un-imperatif-commercial-strategique-et-societal-selon-ibm-emea/
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Devin AI Agent Autonomously Plans, Codes and Debugs
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A glimpse of the future of AI at work: I got early access to Devin, the "AI developer" – it is slow & breaks often, but you can start to see what an AI agent can do. It makes a plan and executes it autonomously, doing research, writing code & debugging, without you watching.
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Learning Goals Enhance Team Performance and Knowledge Transfer
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To make teams better, "set learning-based goals for knowledge development, knowledge re-use (knowledge that could be used for future projects), and knowledge transfer (knowledge that could be useful to other teams)." as well as performance goals. Paper: http://
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ng_to_know_you._Motivating_cross_understanding_for_team_and_individual_performance.pdf
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