The Humanitarian Beta-Test
How the world’s most vulnerable populations became the training data for the global AI industry The Ritual of the Iris In Jordan, the heat at the Za’atari distribution center feels like a physical weight, yet the line moves with surprising speed. There is no fumbling for plastic identity cards, no paper ledger to sign. When a mother who was displaced by a conflict reaches the front, she does not reach for her wallet. Instead, she leans forward with her face inches from a high-definition lens...
