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Forced and Child Labor Abuses Found in 75% of Lithium Battery Supply Chains
Forced and Child Labor Abuses Found in 75% of Lithium Battery Supply Chains
A data study by an U.K. artificial intelligence risk assessment specialist, Infyos, claims the abuses are widespread throughout the industry supplying batteries for electrification of transportation both in hybrid and battery-electric vehicle powertrains. Infyos says its AI technology is developed specifically for the battery industry to automate the gathering, cleansing and classification of unstructured data to identify and assign confidence ratings to allegations of human rights abuses with accuracy and speed that previously was not possible. Infyos claims its research found human rights abuses ranging from people being forced to work in lithium refining facilities under the threat of no or minimal pay to 5-year-old children mining cobalt materials in hazardous conditions.
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