The Formal and Informal Regulation of Labor in AI: The Experience of Eastern and Southern Africa

Christine Bischoff, Ken Kamoche, Geoffrey Wood

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Abstract

AI holds profound consequences for workers and in doing so, raises many regulatory concerns. Although many African countries have serious infrastructural challenges or shortfalls, the production and deployment of AI systems has penetrated several nations on the continent, leading to two related regulatory concerns. The first is around the regulation of labor to encompass those African workers performing low-end work on the development of AI systems; the second is around the sharing of information in authoritarian states and the implications for organized labor and civil society. This article explores these issues, looking at the case of southern and eastern Africa, according to the two largest economies in this area, South Africa and Kenya.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)825-835
Number of pages11
JournalILR Review
Volume77
Issue number5
Early online date8 Oct 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Oct 2024

Keywords

  • local labor market conditions
  • policy analysis
  • policy proposals
  • production location decisions
  • trade unions
  • transition economies
  • trends

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Strategy and Management
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

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