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FAIRNESS IN THE WORK BEHIND THE AI INDUSTRY: HOW ACTION-RESEARCH APPROACHES CAN BUILD BETTER LABOUR CONDITIONS
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January 2025

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

Jonas Chagas Lucio Valente

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Funda Ustek Spilda

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Oguz Alyanak

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Mark Graham

The paper presents findings about the labor conditions on the work behind AI development, with two main goals. First, the aim is to investigate the current labor conditions in the AI industry and point out the lack of quality of outsourced jobs offered by digital labor platforms and Business Process Outsourcing companies, calling attention to the challenges faced by workers and the human costs of AI systems development. Second, it presents a global research project results on how not only to carry on international studies on the topic but also how to use an action-research approach to generate impact through public scoring companies and encourage the adoption of best practices by them. The paper’s methods are based on the project’s action-research approach and methodological framework. The project scores companhies based on principles that address the major issues that define labour relations, namely, pay, conditions, contracts, management, and representation. The paper presents the result of the assessment of cloudwork platforms conducted in 2023. In addition, it paper will examine labour relations in BPO companies in the AI supply chain using a case study of the company Sama, which is based in the United States and operates in many African countries. Among the findings are problems such as non-payment situations, lack of policies to ensure minimum wage, significant rates of unpaid labour, poor measures to promote health and safety, problems in management practices and weak collective bargaining practices.


Data Workers in AI developmentTrabalhadores de dados no desenvolvimento da inteligência artificial: challenges to labour sovereignty in digital labour platforms and global production networksdesafios à soberania de trabalhadores em plataformas digitais de trabalho nas redes globais de produção da IA
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December 2024

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The theme of sovereignty in relation to digital technologies has gained growing attention in recent years, as demonstrated by concepts such as data sovereignty (Hummel et al., 2021) and digital sovereignty (Pinto, 2018). The literature on digital sovereignty comprises a diverse theoretical-methodological universe (Couture, Toupin, 2019), with authors addressing different dimensions of the theme, from the sovereignty of the data generated by groups, such as Indigenous people (Kukutai et al., 2016) to geopolitics of AI (Larssen, 2022). This paper aims to address an underappreciated dimension: the challenges to digital sovereignty in labor relations. Focusing specifically on workers in Artificial Intelligence development. The paper is guided by the following research question: what are the challenges to the sovereignty of AI data workers from the Global South on cloudwork platforms? Discussing the organization of the labor process on cloudwork platforms through a lense of historical-dialectic materialism, it highlights challenges posed by workers’ structurally weak bargaining power and lack of access to labor rights and social protections, arguing that such factors limit the individual and collective sovereignty of workers. Such challenges are illustrated by discussing two major cloudwork platforms: Amazon Mechanical Turk and Microworkers.

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