[Video] DiPLab’s Myriam Raymond at Radio Parleur

The podcast Penser les Luttes (Radio Parleur / Le Média TV) has just released a new episode titled Artificial Intelligence and Its Hidden Slaves (in French). We’re glad to share it here, as it features our colleague and DiPLab research associate Myriam Raymond.

In the episode, Myriam Raymond speaks about who actually trains AI systems: the data workers behind tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Paid per task, often invisible, these workers label images, correct outputs, and perform the micro-tasks that make large language models function. As she explains: identifying objects in images, creating small visual assets, validating model outputs. Essential work, systematically undercounted.

Myriam draws on her recent fieldwork for DiPLab, including her study on AI data workers in Egypt (part of a growing body of investigations into this workforce in the Global South). The episode also features sociologist Juan Sebastian Carbonell, who contextualises the rise of data work within broader questions of offshoring, automation rhetoric, and labour restructuring.