Under a UBI programme, all citizens get paid a basic wage whether or not they are employed. Finnish prison labour is being used to feed AI. Finland has now decided to turn to a source of inexpensive labour, its prison inmates, to categorize and label these data elements. Vainu is now having its work done at two Finnish prisons, one in Helsinki and the other in Turku. The philosophical and ethical questions that this precedent of using prison labour brings to light are beyond the scope of this column.

Source: Mint April 01, 2019 16:52 UTC