Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements

Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements

For years, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been hiring an army of desperate job-seekers — often including educated and underemployed experts — to train AI models to replace them in the workforce. It’s a grim facet of an AI-dominated future in which the business world continues to push for automation, hoping to wean itself off relying on pesky and expensive human labor once and for all. As MIT Tech Review reports, an eerily simil…