person
Sarah T. Roberts
UCLA professor; author of Behind the Screen
UCLA professor whose 2019 Behind the Screen documented the human labour behind commercial content moderation. Has extended this to generative AI training data.
current Associate Professor of Information Studies, UCLA
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI training labour, data annotators, content moderators, is invisible infrastructure that requires labour-rights governance.
The human labour that cleans AI training data is concentrated in the Global South and is systematically hidden from the consumers of AI products.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.