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- Innovation For All, Sheana Ahlqvist
- Media Type |
- audio
- Podknife tags |
- Artificial Intelligence,
- Business,
- Design,
- Entrepreneurship,
- Interview,
- Society & Culture,
- Technology
- Publication Date |
- Feb 10, 2022
- Episode Duration |
- 00:58:15
You'll learn
- How contract workers are essential in aiding AIs and search engines
- Examples of a ghost work in everyday technology
- How the tech industry often devalues contract employees
- What data labeling is
- What a ghost worker's daily schedule looks like
- How the growing telehealth industry is a prime example of under-appreciated, yet essential contract work
- The three elements that undermine job happiness
- How business are benefiting from contract workers
- The growing challenges of moving towards more contract-driven business
- Why we should mind the gap rather than close the gap
- How the pandemic is demonstrating the value of contract and ghost work
- What are the limits of tech and where does human creativity and spontaneity become irreplaceable
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Mary Gray, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and co-author of Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, discusses the work of the often invisible contract employees who bring an essential human element to tec. The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing their undeniable value to light.
Note: This was originally recorded in early 2020.
You'll learn
- How contract workers are essential in aiding AIs and search engines
- Examples of a ghost work in everyday technology
- How the tech industry often devalues contract employees
- What data labeling is
- What a ghost worker's daily schedule looks like
- How the growing telehealth industry is a prime example of under-appreciated, yet essential contract work
- The three elements that undermine job happiness
- How business are benefiting from contract workers
- The growing challenges of moving towards more contract-driven business
- Why we should mind the gap rather than close the gap
- How the pandemic is demonstrating the value of contract and ghost work
- What are the limits of tech and where does human creativity and spontaneity become irreplaceable
Links and Mentions
Connect with Mary:
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