African Data Workers Are Training Military AI Without Knowing It
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African data annotation workers are feeding military AI systems — often without disclosure. The labour rights and ethics gap is widening.
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African Data and the Military AI Supply Chain: Informed Consent in an Age of Dual-Use Datasets
African data workers annotate AI training sets — sometimes for systems they’d never consent to powering. An investigation into data labour rights, dual-use AI, and the informed consent gap.
African Data Labour Rights: Gig Workers, Military AI, and the Informed Consent Gap
Tens of thousands of African gig workers are annotating AI training data — including military AI systems — without knowing it. The informed consent gap is Africa’s most overlooked AI governance problem.
