Assisting Technology: Disability Expertise and Labor in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Work in China

In recent years, people with disabilities in China have been explicitly enrolled by government programs, corporations, and NGOs to classify and label training data for AI systems. This thesis offers an ethnographic account of one of these programs, combining insights from science and technology stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wu, Di
Other Authors: Helmreich, Stefan
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147261
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-6347-2983