A New CNTR Project Aims To Increase AI's Transparency By Mapping Its Data Workers
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on Aug. 20, 2026
A new project (“Where are the data workers behind AI?”) from Brown University's Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign is an investigative attempt to make the data annotation and labeling (DAL) industry more transparent. With an original dataset, the map moves beyond anecdotal reporting of labor practices in the DAL industry to systematically documenting data workers’ locations for each data labeling company, thereby producing an empirical examination of worker distribution in the DAL industry.
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