During my talk at the University of Harvard, I presented my new book Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation, as well as my fieldwork across South America, Africa, and Europe to examine how AI companies serve as modern gatekeepers of global labor migration. In this conversation with Dr. Moira Weigel, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center, I argued that tech companies extract labor from low-income countries while ensuring workers remain physically separated from the wealthy nations they serve.