Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource, a non-profit social business that gives digital work to impoverished people around the world.
Prior to Samasource, Janah was a a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo.
Leila Janah received a BA from Harvard.
I think one thing that is concerning to everyone in the business world is, concerning but also exciting, is the rate at which tasks that were previously done by humans can be automated entirely. And we have started to see that with transcription work. I mean computers can approach human accuracy l...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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