About the Book: Big Tech has sold the illusion that artificial intelligence is smooth and effortless, promising prosperity for all. Beneath that veneer lies a harsh reality: millions of precarious workers around the world labor in hidden networks to make AI possible. In this urgent exposé, authors James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant draw on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork to reveal the invisible human workforce powering AI’s datasets, algorithms and infrastructure. They expose how this “extraction machine” perpetuates gendered, racialised and colonial forms of labour and call for a more just digital future.