Who is Really Fueling your #AI? Join us on September 17 to discuss precarization and resistance in #datawork, with the @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social and @superrrnetwork.bsky.social. Don't miss your chance to meet some of the shadow workforce behind AI. buff.ly/dHMHXPV

Huge congrats to @milamiceli.bsky.social 🌟 This is a recognition to all of us making the Data Workers’ Inquiry project!

The event is in-person: 📅 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵. ⏱️ 𝟭𝟳:𝟬𝟬 – 𝟭𝟵:𝟯𝟬 📍@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, Hardenbergstrasse 32, in Berlin. 🌐 R𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/... For those unable to attend, we'll be live-streaming here: www.youtube.com/live/jA3wSMe...

📣 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘! We're excited to co-organize a transnational data worker assembly together with @superrrnetwork.bsky.social on September 16-17 in Berlin. While the first day is closed-door, we’ll host a public event on the 17th. 👉 Program and registration: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Thrilled to welcome 13 data workers to the transnational assembly co-hosted by @superrrnetwork.bsky.social & @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, and honored to give a keynote at the public event on the 17th. Join us @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social! Registration: tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/jl89e/

Who is really fueling your #AI? 🤔 It's not just code & algorithms. Behind every LLM are millions of people, often in invisible roles. Join us, @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social @superrrnetwork.bsky.social & on Sept. 17 to hear directly from data workers! 🔗 buff.ly/2ug32Bx

@milamiceli.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social at the Weizenbaum Institute yesterday to discuss Hanna’s and @emilymbender.bsky.social’s new book “The AI Con”.

🚨NEW INQUIRY! @joan1k.bsky.social from @datalabelers.bsky.social discusses beginnings, gratitude, and partnerships in this piece. @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social is an active partner of the DLA, and we remain united in the fight for the rights of data workers worldwide! data-workers.org/DLA/

Here's the live stream if you want to join online: youtube.com/live/54i0VSo...

Join us next week to talk about THE #AI CON! Alex Hanna unpacks the myths and marketing that surround today’s #AI discourse, and @milamiceli.bsky.social‬ brings in critical insights from @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social‬ about the invisible labor behind AI systems. June 30, 6pm 👉 buff.ly/47fMwFf

Next Monday, we are thrilled to welcome @alexhanna.bsky.social to the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social for a conversation about her new book, THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (thecon.ai) 🔗Register here: tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/sgvbf/

Taking content moderators' suffering and mental health serious requires evidence-based intervention. Kauna has a concrete proposal!

We’re working on securing funds to make Kaunas much-needed program a reality. Reach out if you’re in a position to help! Trigger warning!

This is more than a critique, it’s a call to action. Kauna urges tech platforms like Meta to replace performative “resilience” programs with real, trauma-informed care. These workers are critical to the integrity of our digital world; it’s time they were treated as such.

She presents a scalable, evidence-based intervention designed to address the unique mental health challenges these workers face.

In her report “A Mental Health Intervention for Data Workers”, Kauna - former content moderator and now clinical psychologist - offers a solution grounded in both personal experience and professional expertise.

Our brand NEW INQUIRY just dropped! Every day, data workers, content moderators, annotators, and labellers confront some of the internet’s most harmful content to keep digital spaces safe for others.

📢NEW INQUIRY‼️ Data workers see the internet’s worst, so the rest of us don’t have to. Former content moderator and clinical psychologist, Kauna Malgwi, collaborated with DWI to design a mental health plan tailored to data workers' needs: data-workers.org/kauna/

🚨New Inquiry!! Today, we present Kauna’s mental healthcare proposal tailored specifically to data workers - addressing PTSD, burnout, depression, and more. Her plan delivers a way forward for those affected and a call for change. data-workers.org/kauna/ #MentalHealthInTech #DataWorkersInquiry

1/4 Exciting News! David Hartmann et al.'s paper, "Lost in Moderation: How Commercial Content Moderation APIs Over- and Under-Moderate Group-Targeted Hate Speech and Linguistic Variations," has been accepted to CHI Conference 2025.

Let's take care of the Internet! @dawiet.bsky.social was recently featured in the "Intenet Governance Explained"-Podcast. Dive into the episode to learn more about the risks of using AI in content moderation and the working conditions of content moderators. open.spotify.com/episode/3u2i...

Just published with a Best Paper award! Adriana Alvarado, Tianling Yang & @milamiceli.bsky.social examine the discursive strategies in the papers that combine social media data and computational methods. doi.org/10.1145/3701...

New article from Dr. Fatma Elsafoury: Dive into the different facets of discrimination and bias in AI algorithms, focusing on the growing deep-fake industry. Stay informed—read and share widely! www.bpb.de/lernen/beweg... (english: efatmae.github.io/posts/2024/1...)

New publication by @dawiet.bsky.social et al.! Their research exposes a critical regulatory gap in the AI Act & DSA, calling for a diverse AI audit ecosystem that empowers civil society and affected groups to ensure oversight and accountability doi.org/10.1007/s436...

Paper alert! Tianling Yang & @milamiceli.bsky.social explore guilds on Chinese data work platform as a form for both worker empowerment and control. Dive into their ethnographic work about a crowdsourcing platform in China doi.org/10.1145/3686...

#GenAI tools like ChatGPT or Midjourney would not be possible today without the millions of data workers around the world. Join us on July 8 for the launch of the Data Workers' Inquiry led by  @milamiceli.bsky.social., when they tell their stories ⬇️ www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Today, we presented our project on learning from past experiences with impact assessment integrations at the STS Conference Graz. We claim that fundamental rights impact assessments can contribute to an inclusive AI accountability ecosystem.

Lena Pohlmann is the last of our student research assistants; she also studies philosophy of technology in her master's program at the Technische Universität Berlin. She is interested in algorithmic fairness and currently researches algorithmic impact assessments.

Another one of our student research assistents is Laurenz Sachenbacher! He is studying philosophy of technology in his master's program at the Technische Universität Berlin and is interested in the structural embeddedness of AI systems from a philosophical perspective.

As a part of our introduction, let's move on to DASE's student research assistants. Camilla Wagner is one of them and a student of political science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her main fields of interest lie at the interaction between society and technology.

Looking forward to our Data Feminism reading group tonight, where we will mainly discuss “Classification” based on chapter 4 of Data Feminism and writings by Anja Bechman and Geoffrey Bowker as well as Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen this time.

Great news: our submitted abstract has been accepted at the STS Conference Graz 2024. We look forward to talking on the "The Automated Public" panel in May! www.tugraz.at/arbeitsgrupp...

1/2 Two exciting days in Brussels come to a close today. Our group members @milamiceli.bsky.social, Camilla and Laurenz participated in the Transnational Forum of Alternatives to Uberisation. Follow the remainder of the discussion live. left.eu/events/trans...

To continue introducing our group members, let’s see who else does a Ph.D. in the DASE group: @dawiet.bsky.social - a computer scientist and philosopher - explores algorithmic fairness, focusing on audits and reverse engineering of algorithmic systems, and causal inference.

In our “Data Feminism” Reading Group today we will explore objectivity, truth, and rationality myths. We will discuss the myth of ground truth by reading an essay by Lora Aroyo and Chris Welty and rationality, with a paper by Helen Longino about feminist critiques of rationality!

Congratulations to Fatma Elsafoury on her PhD about the Impact of Bias in NLP Models on Hate Speech Detection Models! We are happy that she will continue her work as a Post Doc in our research group. Check out her Thesis efatmae.github.io/files/Fatma-...

Have you ever wondered who our group members are? One of them is our PhD Student Tianling Yang! She is a social scientist and studies the production of machine learning data, particularly focusing on social and institutional contexts and working conditions. www.weizenbaum-institut.de/portrait/p/t...

We are eager for our second session of our Data Feminism Reading group today. We will discuss the introduction and first chapter of the book “Data Feminism” (by @kanarinka.bsky.social and @laurenfklein.bsky.social) and deal with “Situated knowledges” by Donna Haraway!

Exciting day at our working group in @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social! Our interdisciplinary bi-weekly reading group kicks off its exploration of diverse data perspectives. We dive into 'Data Feminism' by @kanarinka.bsky.social and @laurenfklein.bsky.social , unraveling the chapters.

Check out the newly designed website from the Weizenbaum Institut of our research group. Find out more about the work we do here: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/forschung/di...

Our Research Group Leader @milamiceli.bsky.social was announced to be among the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list for 2024. Check it out: medium.com/women-in-ai-...