Microwork in Artificial Intelligence:

women's fundamental rights and the Ethics of Care

Abstract

This article has the general objective of demonstrating that microwork in Brazil is predominantly carried out by women due to the Ethics of Care in which they are socialized in patriarchal society. Microwork is understood here as being carried out to feed data to Artificial Intelligence, intermediated through platforms in which there is hiring and remuneration for microtasks, upon application, without employment contracts and social rights. As specific objectives, we intend to present some crucial concepts about Artificial Intelligence and women's access to the science, technology and innovation job market; contextualize microwork in Brazil and, in the end, discuss fundamental aspects of the Ethics of Care and the need to refound this theory of moral action based on a feminist orientation that is in line with women's fundamental rights and international commitments to eliminate any form of work of discrimination against them. This is exploratory research, with a bibliographic and documentary research method. The conclusion points to the fundamentality of a new development of care that considers it as an ethical commitment of all human beings and not just women and to the need for regulation of microwork capable of containing the gender asymmetries that it is capable of intensify.