You've seen the headlines, artificial intelligence is taking over jobs.

There's no question artificial intelligence will remake the workplace.

In the coming years artificial intelligence is probably going to change your life and

likely the entire world.

Will AI automation and robotics replace all the jobs?

This is a humanoid robot, which means it looks, it talks, and it even acts well like a human.

So does that mean you can take a human's job like mine?

You better believe it.

But as anxieties over automation mount, AI is already driving the employment of an estimated

millions of workers globally.

From chatbots to text to image generators, AI relies on human workers labeling and annotating

the countless images and words it references.

And this is a global enterprise.

Workers in Kenya, to the Philippines, to here in the US, do the tedious work of clicking

through and tagging thousands of images often for little pay and with little opportunity

for growth.

It's been described as a labor supply chain.

So what do we know about this workforce?

And as Congress moves to regulate AI, how are the industry's gig workers being considered?

We'll discuss those questions and get into a whole lot more after the break.

I'm Jen White.

You're listening to the 1A podcast, where we get to the heart of the story.

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