It is poor, in the Global South, with a government hungry for foreign investment from richer countries. All of these are a part of Kenya’s legacy of colonialism, which has left it without well-developed institutions to protect its citizens from exploitation and often in the throes of economic crisis, both of which make circumstances ripe for overseas companies to find an immiserated pool of labor that will do piecework under almost any conditions.
—Karen Hao, Empire of AI
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