Niewidzialni pracownicy, czyli kto stoi za sztuczną inteligencją

Nastazja Potocka-Sionek

Niewidzialni pracownicy, czyli kto stoi za sztuczną inteligencją

Publication date: 21.07.2022

Studies on Labour Law and Social Policy, Volume 29 (2022), Volume 29 Issue 2, pp. 105 - 119

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444654SPP.22.010.15684

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Niewidzialni pracownicy, czyli kto stoi za sztuczną inteligencją

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Invisible workers—who is behind the artificial intelligence?

The article is dedicated to microworkers—highly precarious, often “invisible”workers whose labour is pivotal for the development of artificial intelligence (AI). It examines how crowdwork platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, Appen and Clickworker organise the work of globally dispersed workers annotating data. It argues that, more often than not, this kind of work is performed in a highly structured, yet intransparent way, and is subject to substantial algorithmic control. This gives rise to the question of the employment classification of formally independent microworkers. The paper discusses this issue in light of the proposed Directive on the improved working conditions of platform workers.

ASJC: 3308, JEL: K31

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mikropraca, praca w tłumie, praca platformowa, zarządzanie algorytmiczne, anotacja danych, sztuczna inteligencja; microwork, crowdwork, platform work, algorithmic management, data annotation, artificial intelligence

microwork, crowdwork, platform work, algorithmic management, data annotation, artificial intelligence

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Information: Studies on Labour Law and Social Policy, Volume 29 (2022), Volume 29 Issue 2, pp. 105 - 119

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25444654SPP.22.010.15684

Article type: Original article

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Niewidzialni pracownicy, czyli kto stoi za sztuczną inteligencją

English:

Invisible workers—who is behind the artificial intelligence?

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Nastazja Potocka-Sionek

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9841-5068

European University Institute, Italy

Published at: 21.07.2022

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