EVENT INVITATION

Dear Partners, 

We are excited to invite you to preview the documentary The Gig Is Up, which brings to light the hidden human cost of modern conveniences by sharing the stories of the people enabling the technologies we sometimes take for granted. Please join us for a conversation with director Shannon Walsh and Mary L. Gray (author of Ghost Work and Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research). 

• Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 12-1pm PT / 3-4pm ET

• Registrants will be sent a private link and password to view the documentary free of charge ahead of the discussion

At PAI, we have been working to highlight the precarious working conditions faced by a key group that make AI possible: data enrichment professionals. Our recently published white paper Responsible Sourcing of Data Enrichment Services covers how data sourcing decisions impact workers and proposes avenues for AI practitioners to improve their working conditions. We were thrilled to see this issue explored in The Gig Is Up. 

We hope you can join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion on the documentary, the human cost of building AI, the nature of gig and ghost work, and what we can do to meaningfully improve working conditions for this growing labor force.

If you have any questions about the event or PAI’s work on AI, Labor, and the Economy, please feel free to reach out to me.

Best,
Sonam Jindal
Program Lead for AI, Labor and the Economy
Partnership on AI