Kenyan tech workers urge Biden to end 'modern day slavery' ahead of state visit

A group of nearly 100 tech workers from Kenya wrote a letter to President Biden ahead of Thursday’s Kenya state dinner at the White House, urging him to end “modern day slavery” in the country's tech sector.

The authors of the letter work as data labelers, content moderators and artificial intelligence (AI) workers for American companies like Meta’s Facebook, ScaleAI and OpenAI.

“US Big Tech companies are systematically abusing and exploiting African workers. In Kenya, these...