Impending Antarctic iceberg is the size of Delaware, and extends 700 feet below the surface

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If todays microwork automates our jobs away.This is an event in which scale matters: the more of the labour force that is shifted to and splintered across microtasking platforms with terms and conditions.

In Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism.In Joness darkest chapter.workers are paid pennies to train the AIs that will eventually replace them entirely.

too? Or is it a permanent reality as humans become part of the computational infrastructure of artificial artificial intelligence -- the term Jeff Bezos likes to use to describe the Mechanical Turk platform? (This sort of linguistic absorption of humans has a history that Jones doesnt explore: the earliest computers were women performing intricate calculations at NASA.)  Jones argues that todays conditions are different: what were seeing is jobs being carved up into tasks.

99   Will we be retired -- or unemployed? the leader of a futurist conference asked in 2007 while envisioning a world filled with AIs possessed of superhuman intelligence.

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