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Madhumita Murgia
Financial Times AI editor; 'Code Dependent' author
Financial Times AI editor and author of 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI' (2024). Reported the working conditions of data labelers and content moderators powering frontier ML.
current AI Editor, Financial Times
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Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues the human cost of AI's data and moderation pipelines is invisible by design and that surfacing it is essential to honest debate about AI governance.
Behind every smooth chatbot is an army of underpaid workers cleaning, labelling, and moderating data, often in the Global South. AI dependency is also dependence on this hidden workforce.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.