Finnish prisoners are training AI

The World

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.

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