Finnish prisoners are training AI
by editors@theworld.org (Orla Barry) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6RG60)
There's a lot of worry about AI taking people's jobs. But around the world, workers are also employed to gather and organize the data needed to make those AI systems work. Many of the workers are located in the global south where wages can be low. But Finland, a high-wage economy, is an outlier. There, one company hires inmates from the local prisons. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry has the story.