Starbucks has been slapped with another human rights abuse lawsuit from farm field workers. In the latest suit filed in April in U.S. civil court, eight Brazilian laborers for a coffee supplier of ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

There's a non-zero chance that human labor and intelligence could be surplus to requirements in the mid-to-near future. That would entail a seismic shift in the balance of power and the way societies ...

Slavery is an abhorrent concept, but for most of human history, it was accepted as normal. The widespread collapse of “the ...

Human trafficking at sea hides behind dark fleets and opaque ownership. Reporters exposing exploitation in the high seas use ...

A digital native is a person raised on the internet. A digital nomad is a person who moves around doing a computer job. And a digital laborer is not a person at all. With the rise of agentic AI, or ...

HITL also provides a framework for integrating collaborative robot (cobot), robot, and human labor in a way that preserves human enjoyment of work. The “automate everything” mindset brings a risk of ...

We’re deep in the throes of another technology bubble, this one driven by so-called artificial intelligence, which very often is neither artificial nor intelligent. But what do AI and other forms of ...

The challenge of the next decade is to discover how to introduce artificial intelligence into the workforce so that everyone benefits. Maya Kulycky loves a bulleted list, but even more, she loves ...