Do you remember the videoclip of This is America by Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover? It is a metaphor on how mass media and the entertainment industry distract American society on the use of violence against black people.

I have kept thinking about that video even after my meeting with sociologist, computer scientist, immigrant and first-generation academic Milagros Miceli, who has enlightened me on the reality behind the progress and comfort provided by algorithms at the base of A.I.

Her reaserch focuses on the hundreds of (literally) invisible workers who provide to few, richest people the privilege of Machine Learning softwares, without any rights, healthcare or salary. 

But, also: what about the big techs, the researchers and engineers who work in close contact with A.I? What are their responsibilities? Is it possible real progress without the need for exploiting minorities, using the ghosts of hunger and poverty for blackmailing them?

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