Faven Mulugeta for NPR
Sometimes it feels like when we aren’t worried about AI destroying humanity — we worry about it replacing white collar jobs like lawyers, accountants, coders. But tech companies have plans for AI-powered robots to replace blue collar jobs as well.
We go to southern India, where our correspondent found domestic and factory workers being enlisted to train AI, sometimes without their knowledge.
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