Suresh Venkatasubramanian

computer science professor at Brown, leads the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign

Titles as the sources gave them. In 1 entry, with 1 checked quotation.

What they said

Newest first. Each quotation was found word for word in the source.

“That’s the real story behind the generation of AI. The problem with a lot of current discourse around AI is that it seeks to ignore that.”
Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AIBrown University, October 26, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Venkatasubramanian, Ma's advisor, on why the human labor underneath AI matters.

In the Base

Every entry they appear in.

  1. NewsBrown UniversitySpeaks

    Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI

    Brown University reports on an interactive map by undergraduate Cunyan Ma linking 13 data labeling companies, 141 of their corporate customers and 31 countries with data worker sites. Ma frames the outsourced, low-paid labor as "AI colonialism"; the map is described as illustrative, not comprehensive.