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Image from the Zooniverse citizen science project Beluga Bits (2018).

Image from the Zooniverse citizen science project Beluga Bits (2018).

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The development of artificial intelligence is said to be the next challenge for our Protestant work ethics. The essence of work, as something that in a capitalist society can be alienated, commodified and exchanged, is again being renegotiated. Traditionally, the development of the human capital has focused on basic academic skills, to read and wri...

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... looking, for example, into the citizen science project at Zooniverse, the work can be anything from identifying galaxies and stars, as in the Galaxy Zoo project, where human annotations of galaxies are helping scientists. Similar methods using the Zooniverse platform are used to identify debris on beaches, to map the social life of whales, to track changes in coastal environments by identifying marine invertebrates, or identifying different kinds of storms, among other projects (Figures 6-9). Other projects such as OpenStreetMap use a combination of methods to annotate satellite maps, which has shown to be especially efficient in disaster recovery ( Figure 10). ...