Mapping AI: Labor

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Explores multiple forms of labor exploitation at play in developing AI.

Fayerweather Hall, Room 513

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<p>This workshop explores multiple forms of labor exploitation at play in developing AI, from underpaid classification work to the theft of intellectual property, in addition to murky contracts and influence of AI on university labor.</p><p>This event also continues work started in February on the AI map, now adding the kinds of contracts Columbia has with vendors of AI tools, interventions into the availability of participants' content as training data, and/or identifications of data sources and kinds of work around the university.</p><p><br></p><h3>Event Speakers</h3><ul><li><a href="https://jacobin.com/author/alex-press" title="https://jacobin.com/author/alex-press" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alex Press</a>, staff writer at Jacobin</li><li><a href="https://www.dair-institute.org/team/adrienne-williams/" title="https://www.dair-institute.org/team/adrienne-williams/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Adrienne Williams</a>, researcher at Distributed AI Research Institute</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Event Information</h3><p>Free and open to the public; registration required. Please email scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.</p><p>Hosted by the <a href="https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/" title="https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Center for Science and Society</a> at Columbia University. Supported by the <a href="https://iserp.columbia.edu/" title="https://iserp.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy</a> at Columbia University.</p>

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