Format: Invited Talk (opens the conference)
Speaker: Patrick Feuerstein
Behind every AI model are people who label data, moderate content, and check outputs. Most of them work for subcontractors, far from the companies whose products they train. Patrick Feuerstein draws on Fairwork’s work on working conditions in AI supply chains, that assessed companies against five principles: fair pay, fair conditions, fair contracts, fair management, and fair representation.
The results highlight some of the most concerning risks for data workers as lead firms push cost pressure down the chain and spread responsibility thin. What would it take to make them answer for the people who build their products? Feuerstein will explain the new Fairwork certification scheme, discuss the promises and limits of certification and how it could complement other forms of worker power.
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Patrick Feuerstein Postdoctoral research fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center