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Rural Kenyans power West’s AI revolution. Now they want more

Data labelling happens at odd hours. Caroline Njau, 30, often wakes up at 2am to see if any labelling tasks have been uploaded to an app provided by an American tech company [Anne Kidmose/Al Jazeera]

Naivasha, Kenya – Caroline Njau comes from a family of farmers who tend to fields of maize, wheat, and potatoes in the hilly terrain near Nyahururu, 180 kilometres (112 miles) north of the capital Nairobi.

But Njau has chosen a different path in life.

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