Research [A data-driven analysis of workers' earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk] by SMU Assistant Professor of Information Systems Kotaro Hara and his collaborators was cited in an article discussing governments’ concerns about how they deal with advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the human costs they may cause through loss of employment. The research revealed that that the median wage of a worker at Amazon.com, Inc.’s outsourcing firm Mechanical Turk is around $2. The US minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
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