Conference
The Human Cost of AI with James Muldoon
Organised by Second Home
AI promises wealth but relies on a hidden, exploited global workforce, as revealed by James Muldoon.
About this event
Artificial intelligence is set to transform our world, but what about its human cost?
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible.
Join Professor James Muldoon whose fieldwork over more than a decade shows how AI is an extraction machine that churns through ever-larger datasets and feeds off humanity’s labour and collective intelligence to power its algorithms. This talk coincides with the recent publication of FEEDING THE MACHINE praised by Stephen Fry as possibly "the most important book to be written in the current fever of AI publishing" and by Brian Eno as "an extraordinary and essential book".
James will be in conversation with a very special public figure.