AI Punchers: Micro-Work in the Age of Digital Platforms
Services such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, Figure Eight or Clickworker are spaces where companies and start-ups "train" or test their artificial intelligence solutions by recruiting myriad workers who perform micro-tasks such as transcription, visual recognition or video labelling in exchange for very low salaries of just a few cents. Existing studies have focused mainly on English-language platforms. Our DiPLab (Digital Platform Labor, a partnership between Télécom Paristech, CNRS, FO, France stratégie and MSH Paris Saclay) survey targeted for the first time the micro-work ecosystem in France and in French-speaking African countries. The results paint a surprising picture of the changes in the labour market at a time of automation.
Biography
Antonio CASILLI is an HDR lecturer in Digital Humanities at Telecom ParisTech and a researcher at the Institut Interdisciplinaire de l'Innovation (i3), a joint research unit of the CNRS. He is also an associate member of the LACI-IIAC (Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Critique Interdisciplinaire, formerly the Edgar Morin Centre), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) and a faculty fellow at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Among other things, he is the author of "En attendant les robots" (Seuil, 2019), "Qu'est-ce que le digital labor?" (INA, 2015, with D. Cardon), "Les liaisons numériques" (Seuil, 2010).
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