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A new study uses the death of an Indonesian fisher aboard a Taiwanese vessel to expose the dangers migrant workers face in isolated and weakly regulated fishing operations.

An investigation reveals that gig workers in Africa hired through the data-labeling platform Appen were unknowingly annotating data used to train AI systems for the U.S. military. The workers, paid a fraction of Western wages, had no idea their labeling work was feeding into defense and intelligence applications.