Ilhem Allagui, professor and director of the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program, and Anto Mohsin, assistant professor in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar, sit down with Mark Graham, professor of Internet Geography at the University of Oxford, to unpack the often unseen human labor behind artificial intelligence.

Graham, who leads the Fairwork Project, an action-research initiative that has driven hundreds of policy and industry changes to improve conditions for millions of workers, shares insights from his latest book, Feeding the Machine, which exposes the people and systems fueling AI’s rapid growth.

This episode is produced by Scheherazade Safla-Gaffoor, assistant professor in the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program, and edited by student producer Juyoung Kim ’26.