Josh Alley"Could?" The purpose of the training is to indeed automate the jobs. That's the point, purpose, value proposition, financial incentive, and game.
These workers help train robots who could one day steal their jobs
NPR profiles workers who generate training data for robots that may eventually automate their own jobs, showing how labor displacement can be built by the people it affects.
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