Mark R. Stoneman"Women and Children Working in New York City Tenement Homes, 1908" https://markstoneman.com/2025/03/08/women-and-children-working-in.html (Photo captions and alt text on blog.) #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #Piecework #ChildLabor #NYC #OldPhotos
A land fit for all our futuresI'm skeptical about the possibility of #AIConsciousness but appreciate that this work on "Taking #AIWelfare Seriously" is well meant
This paper acknowledges "At present, we lack the ability to fully care for the eight billion humans alive at any given time, to say nothing of the quintillions of other animals alive at any given time" although I'm not sure who are the "we" the authors refer to, the global North in general, perhaps?
If there's a possibility of AI consciousness, perhaps people training models should stop exposing algorithms to the worst of humanity through words, sounds and images?
But those wielding the most powerful AI can't look after the welfare of #DataWorkers in their own category of being who are alive today and doing their #piecework, faking automation and fixing algorithmic mistakes
Why is the #welfare of people alive today such a low priority?
#RobertLong, #JeffSebo, #PatrickButlin, #KathleenFinlinson, #KyleFish, #JacquelineHarding, #JacobPfau, #ToniSims, #JonathanBirch, #DavidChalmers
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