Filipino workers, first-line soldiers of artificial intelligence

Like every afternoon, Junbee and John-Henry, two friends aged 22 and 27, enter the suffocating room of a small cybercafé located in the suburbs of Cagayán de Oro, a city in the southern Philippines, where they live. After throwing two teenagers absorbed in their video games, they fall into plastic chairs in front of two obsolete computers. “We don’t have enough money to buy us a computer, so we come here to work every night, from eight to five i…