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Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.

AI Boss

It's a grim glimpse of a future in which AI is your boss — and you're disposable.

Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers

A Finnish startup called Vainu relies on prison labor to train its AI algorithms, arguing that labeling training data is giving inmates valuable skills.

Cheap As Free

"Hey, we could actually use prison labor."

A Finnish Startup Is Using Prison Labor to Train AI

Anonymous contractors at Apple's so-called "black site," a low-key office for Apple Maps development, described grim working conditions.

Out of Sight

“It was made pretty plain to us that we were at-will employees and they would fire us at any time,”

Apple Runs A "Black Site" That a Worker Called "Dehumanizing"

We need to give our work to the machines. 

It’s Time to Shift Our Society to Robotic Labor and a Basic Income

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