GoKawiilPhD holders moonlight as AI trainers for Turing and Mercor
Highly credentialed professionals—including a PhD candidate in game theory who also works at EY and teaches at the London School of Economics—are taking on side gigs training AI models for companies like Turing and Mercor. These workers describe being recruited via messages such as LinkedIn outreach, and say the work involves feeding their specialized expertise into AI systems being developed by these firms.