In late 2021, the artificial intelligence company OpenAI reached out to a tech outsourcing firm named Sama with a work contract. The work consisted of filtering excerpts of text for “toxic content”. Included in said content were descriptions of child sexual abuse, incest, torture and more. There is therefore significant potential to harm workers’ mental health. The Kenyan branch of the outsourcing firm was given the work, and a group of roughly three dozen workers was assembled and paid between 1.32$ and 2$ an hour, or roughly 170 USD$ a month (Perrigo). However, the salary is still well…