AI should handle routine tasks
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Bestselling author Ethan Mollick advised workers to use AI agents for routine tasks while guarding against systems taking over the most interesting parts of their jobs.
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“It’s all humans underneath...The problem with a lot of current discourse around AI is that it seeks to ignore that...we start constructing stories around AI as its own sentient being...But it’s not. It’s something that’s built — something that’s constructed by us, by people, all across the world.”
“As part of an ongoing project to explore the material underpinnings of the digital world, the Brown senior has created an interactive map linking technology companies and their intermediaries to data workers around the world.”
Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
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October 27, 2026 at 1:03 AM
“It’s all humans underneath...The problem with a lot of current discourse around AI is that it seeks to ignore that...we start constructing stories around AI as its own sentient being...But it’s not. It’s something that’s built — something that’s constructed by us, by people, all across the world.”