The New White-Collar Gig Economy: Management & Work

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The next gig economy

As the white-collar job market teeters, a new kind of gig economy is taking shape, driven by the growing demand for advanced artificial intelligence.

Companies like Mercor, Surge AI, Scale AI and Turing pitch themselves as something akin to Uber for AI-training talent. They recruit skilled professionals — bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors — in some cases paying them hundreds of dollars an hour to help AI labs improve the ...