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Asia demonstrates least transparency on AI safeguards for workers: report
Only 7 per cent of more than a thousand firms surveyed in the region are using artificial intelligence with adequate safeguards to help workers adapt to the technology’s impact, according to new analysis by AI Company Data Initiative.
A report on the Southeast Pacific squid fishery – largely operated by Chinese vessels – reveals labour abuses, shark finning and weak oversight on the high seas.
A catastrophic dumpsite collapse buried scavengers collecting recyclables at a landfill in the Philippines’ Rizal province on 20 February, following a similar incident in Cebu in January that killed 36 people.
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