In my last article in The Mint Magazine, I discuss how the Global North exploits poverty and weak laws in the South to accelerate its digital transformation.
Have you ever asked yourself
- Who moderates our social media?
- Who annotates the images for our electric cars?
- Who extracts the metals needed for our smartphones?
- In which populations AI algorithms are tested?
The image that accompanies the article is "Clickworker Abyss" by Max Gruber and is part of the Better Images of AI repository (CC-BY 4.0).
Better Images of AI is an initiative that is building a repository of free images that more realistically portray AI and the people behind it and point towards its strengths, weaknesses, context, and applications.
https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-artificial-intelligence-is-recolonising-the-global-south
