‘Someone else will do it for less’: Refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay

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Tech companies have built some of their most powerful tools on datasets handled by precarious workers, including refugees, in low-income countries. He hoped the booming global outsourcing industry would help refugees earn a guaranteed income. Some highly skilled refugees in Kakuma have found remote work through outsourcing and freelancer platforms to be a gamechanger. If annotation jobs are becoming obsolete, Castilla still believes that other entry-level jobs, such as data cleaning and reviewing AI outputs, might provide opportunities for refugees in the future. Building better protectionsAs AI speeds up the refugees’ work, it’s also diminishing their pay.

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