The Ministry of Labor brought down the investigation of the artificial intelligence scale

The US Department of Labor has dropped its investigation into the compliance of Scale AI of the Law of the Standards of Adble Work, according to a source directly aware of this issue.

FLSA is a federal law that regulates poor classification of employees as independent contractors and unpaid wages. Techcrunch first mentioned that The scale was the subject of this investigation In March.

Upwork and Hireart, two human resources partners from artificial intelligence that has also been investigated to comply FLSA In a company magazineDOL is no longer being investigated, each of them emphasized Techcrunch.

Artificial intelligence scale, which Its value was last year at $ 13.8 billionIt depends on an army of workers who classify it as contractors to do critical artificial intelligence, such as describing pictures of large technology.

However, the scale He By former colleagues who claim to have received low salaries and their bads as contractors instead of employees, and to deny them to reach advantages such as satisfactory leave.

It is not exactly the reason why DOL’s investigation is dropped. San Francisco -based AI scale rejected the comment, while DOL did not respond to a request for comment.

There are several possible reasons.

A recent step from DOL hints in a more friendly approach to classifying workers as contractors, with the agency Announcement on May 1 It is no longer executed, at least at the present time, a base of the Biden era, which made this more difficult.

Scale AI is also looking for Saleh with the Trump administration. CEO Alexander Wang civilized region Trump installation (Like many other technology executives) He has I published a message urging Trump To “win the war of artificial intelligence.”

Meanwhile, he was the former administrative director of Ai Michael Kratsios certain In March as a new director of the White House Science and Technology Office.

The situation involves advising the president on scientific and technical issues, and has no supervision of DOL. Kratsssus did not immediately respond to a request for comment.