Child Labour vs Algorithmic Bias: The Price of Progress
Eight-year-old Sarah Gooder entered the coal mine at 4 AM every day. Two centuries later, AI hiring systems replay the same injustice in a different form.
Eight-year-old Sarah Gooder entered the coal mine at 4 AM every day. Two centuries later, AI hiring systems replay the same injustice in a different form.
Artisans took pride in their craft. Factory workers grew numb. Gig workers don’t even know who their boss is. Alienation never stopped evolving.
In 1899, Taylor stood beside workers with a stopwatch. In 2024, Uber’s algorithm needs no stopwatch — it knows you better than Taylor ever could.