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most citedWhere does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America

12 citations · 20 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CY2026

Data Work in Egypt: Who Are the Workers Behind Artificial Intelligence?

Myriam Raymond, Lucy Neveux, Antonio A. Casilli +1

The report highlights the role of Egyptian data workers in the global value chains of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These workers generate and annotate data for machine learning, c…

cs.CY2025

The digital labour of artificial intelligence in Latin America: a comparison of Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela

Paola Tubaro, Antonio A. Casilli, Mariana Fernández Massi +3

The current hype around artificial intelligence (AI) conceals the substantial human intervention underlying its development. This article lifts the veil on the precarious and low-p…

cs.CY2025★ 12 cited

Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America

Paola Tubaro, Antonio A Casilli, Maxime Cornet +2

This article examines the organisational and geographical forces that shape the supply chains of artificial intelligence (AI) through outsourced and offshored data work. Bridging s…

cs.CY2024★ 3 cited

Global Inequalities in the Production of Artificial Intelligence: A Four-Country Study on Data Work

Antonio A. Casilli, Paola Tubaro, Maxime Cornet +3

Labor plays a major, albeit largely unrecognized role in the development of artificial intelligence. Machine learning algorithms are predicated on data-intensive processes that rel…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

Making Data: The Work Behind Artificial Intelligence

Matheus Viana Braz, Paola Tubaro, Antonio A. Casilli

AI generates both enthusiasm and disillusionment, with promises that often go unfulfilled. It is therefore not surprising that human labor, which is its fundamental component, is a…

physics.soc-ph2022

A meso-scale cartography of the AI ecosystem

Floriana Gargiulo, Sylvain Fontaine, Michel Dubois +1

In recent decades the set of knowledge, tools and practices, collectively referred to as "artificial intelligence" (AI), have become a mainstay of scientific research. Artificial i…