For the past two years prisoners in Finland have been participating in AI annotation tasks, such as labelling and classifying data, as part of a rehabilitation programme. Instead of traditional prison tasks like sewing, cleaning, and doing laundry, inmates at three closed prisons in Finland have been offered the opportunity to try out this type of digital work. The initiative, which is partnered with market data startup, Metroc, aims to reduce recidivism by equipping inmates with modern skills. “As our software tries to interpret text material and different details about construction products,…