Today, @QUBelfast announced our partnership to support Queen’s students and staff with access to software, training and accreditation in data analytics. We believe that data skills should be democratized, and when we empower students to work with data, we democratize opportunity
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AI Disruption and Future Job Creation: Human Adaptation Strategy
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Yeah, it will be short term pain, and I expect hate for AI to only continue to get worse. But I believe humans, as always, will adapt and create new jobs. It’ll be a new world so it’s hard to say exactly what those jobs will be — but there will always be work to be done.
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Congratulations on Your New AI Industry Opportunity
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Congratulations! Such a well-deserved opportunity to contribute, serve and make an impact!
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Automation Prioritizes Profit Over People and Planet
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Every job that can be automated or replaced will be where GDP or productivity with and shareholder value is prioritized. Period. When have you heard the phrase, “we can save money and time with X job done with AI but we care more about people and planet?”
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Winning with Data Science: A Handbook for Business Leaders
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"Winning with #DataScience: A Handbook for Business Leaders" at http://
amzn.to/3GPeU74 by @howardsfriedman & @akshay_swa #BigData #Analytics #DataScientists #CDO #CMO #CTO #DataStrategy #AnalyticsStrategy #AI #MachineLearning #DecisionScience #Algorithms #DataEthics -
Scale AI Remotasks Access Blocked Across Multiple African Countries
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Update: This is worse than I thought. Workers in Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa are also reporting that they are being blocked from the website or cannot create an account. It's possible that Scale AI suspended Remotasks far beyond just Kenya.
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Corporate Responsibility: Poverty Wages and Worker Safety Ethics
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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/