Getting Paid to Teach AI to Take Your Job: California Brief

Getting Paid to Teach AI to Take Your Job

Mercor recruited Sundeep Jain, Uber’s former chief product officer, as operations head

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San Francisco startup Mercor is recruiting professionals—doctors, lawyers, social workers—to train AI systems to do their own jobs, Tom Foster reports. The gig-work platform has raised almost $500 million and reached a $10 billion valuation in three years.

The company, co-founded by three early 20s college dropouts who never held real jobs, places tens of thousands of experts in part-time contracts with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to create training data translating professional judgment into AI capabilities.

San Francisco pediatric hospitalist Melania Poonacha logs 10 hours weekly on her ...