This article is all over the place. I see the issue with the work being traumatizing, but apart from that, the points the article makes are just awful. > labor

This article is all over the place. I see the issue with the work being traumatizing, but apart from that, the points the article makes are just awful. > labor exploitation is not central to the discourse surrounding the ethical development and deployment of AI systems Yes, because workers' rights and AI Ethics are two separate issues. It seems the author is using the fact that AI ethics is a thing as a "gotcha" against AI companies, because they treat their workers unethically according to them. > In this article, we [...] argue that supporting transnational worker organizing efforts should be a priority in discussions pertaining to AI ethics. And even if you shoved workers rights into AI ethics; How do you organize labor for a job where there's an unlimited pool of people worldwide who would take the job in an instant with minimal training required most likely, making pretty much the whole workforce instantly replaceable? > These corporations know that increased worker power would slow down their march toward proliferating “AI” systems requiring vast amounts of data, deployed without adequately studying and mitigating their harms. > If corporations are not allowed to exploit labor from Kenya to the U.S., for example, they will not be able to proliferate harmful technologies as quickly — their market calculations would simply dissuade them from doing so. Here it's suddenly about actual AI ethics again with the idea that progress needs to be artificially slowed down in order to ensure ethical implementation. Increasing the "unethically low" data labeling wages has the added benefit of slowing down the "unethical" development of AI. > Talk of sentient machines only distracts us from holding them accountable for the exploitative labor practices that power the “AI” industry. It really just looks like a weird ramble where the author picked a popular topic and then grasped at straws to draw lines to their political agenda with some luddism sprinkled on top.