AI Training: "Today We Are Witnessing the Birth of a New Working Class"

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At a time when the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the labour market gives cold sweats to Western economies, millions of precarious workers are employed, mostly in the countries of the South, to train them.Author ofUntil robots (Seuil, 2019) and co-author of the recent documentary Les Sacrifiés de l'IA (2025, for France Télévisions), Antonio Casilli is a professor of sociology at the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. For years he ha…