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#TIME100AI @milamiceli.bsky.social, sociologist & computer scientist at #TUBerlin / @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, is joining the conversation. Be part of it 👇

The DWI team attended this year’s INDL-8 Conference! Laurenz and Camilla shared theoretical and methodological insights on Data Workers’ Inquiry, while our amazing collaborators Kauna and Ephantus led a powerful panel on workers organizing and unionizing. 💪

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

🎉 Latin America continues to be a strong driving force for AI in 2025 🦾 KHIPU is thrilled to communicate that three people from Latin America have been featured in TIME100 AI 2025!! The list of the 100 most influential people in AI according to TIME magazine, include:

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

Timnit believed in me and my vision even before I was able to put it in words. I’m incredibly grateful to @dairinstitute.bsky.social for giving @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social a home and to Timnit for her leadership, generosity, trust and support❤️

🏅 Weizenbaum Researcher @milamiceli.bsky.social was included on TIME's list of Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence of 2025. Congratulations on this distinction and your incredible work for and with data workers, Mila! 🎉 #TIME100AI #AI #DataWork Find out more 👉 buff.ly/JWOejRA

En tiempos de cientificidio y oscurantismo en mi país, estoy orgullosa de ser la primera científica argentina reconocida por la revista TIME como una de las 100 personas más influyentes a nivel mundial en el campo de la inteligencia artificial. time.com/collections/...

I am thrilled to be recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in the field of artificial intelligence for my work with @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social. >> #TIME100AI time.com/time100ai I want to take this opportunity to share a few reflections on this work 👇🧵

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

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/

Dependency and vulnerability are part of what data workers face every day. Read quotes from our collaborators — Yasser, Ranta, Wilington, and Alexis — for a glimpse into what life is really like for data workers.

🚨 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲! In a clear intimidation attempt, TikTok threatened to dismiss one of the organizers. Out of a team of more than 30 employees, it is precisely the worker who took part in the strike who is to be fired.

Hey everyone! We just made a list on here for fellow colleagues, data workers, researchers, and advocates: 📋 bsky.app/profile/did:... Feel free to reply with names or handles you think should be included — we’ll keep updating it!

In Berlin will TikTok massenhaft Mitarbeitende durch eine KI ersetzen, doch die Beschäftigten wehren sich mit dem weltweit ersten Streik bei einem Social-Media-Konzern. Unsere Forscherin @milamiceli.bsky.social gab eine Einschätzung für @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/zfeZYDQ

AI bros think that "sweatshop" conditions of data labor are over, that we need "clever engineers" to train new LLMs. But @milamiceli.bsky.social says: "it’s the same workers. If you talk to people, they will tell you: I have done content moderation. I have done data labeling. Now I am doing this."

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

We stand in full solidarity with TikTok workers. I'll be joining their rally in Berlin today. Join us too to show that content moderators are not disposable! 📅 Today, July 28, 2025 🕐 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM 📍 Regional Labor Court. Magdeburger Platz 1, 10785 Berlin

Artistas en México marchan para exigir la regulación de la IA generativa, bajo el lema "¡UNA SOLA VOZ!" 🔥 Se realizó la Primera Marcha por una Regulación ética de la IA generativa en el Monumento a la Revolución de la CDMX, en México 🇲🇽 🧵

🌐 Zum heutigen #AIAppreciationDay rücken wir Datenarbeiter*innen ins Licht: Sie halten #KI am Laufen, oft unter prekären Bedingungen. Das Projekt @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social lässt sie selbst sprechen, zB in Videos & Comics. Ohne Ausbeutung & auf Augenhöhe. Interview mit @milamiceli.bsky.social 👇

AI is made of people. Data labelers, content moderators, gig workers. It's Soylent Green, all so we can convert angry emails into non-fireable communications As @milamiceli.bsky.social shared, the more AI expands, the more human drudgery it creates. But it doesn't have to baratun.de/4eJjqEl

This coming Monday I’ll be discussing some core ideas from my book, Democratizing AI, with @milamiceli.bsky.social ( @dairinstitute.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social ) & @jonasfegert.bsky.social ( @kit.edu ) at Publix Berlin. Register here: pretix.eu/publix/wemge...

I talked to a journalist at the Geneva Solutions about the censorship i experienced at the AI for Good Summit 2 days ago genevasolutions.news/science-tech...

How can fairer working conditions for data workers be created? A new Discussion Paper outlines guidelines for the use of data work in academic research: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

“The mode is apparently the chatbot’s way of becoming a better educational tool. Rather than providing answers to prompts, some say it asks more questions and requires the human to answer…” In the future, the chatbot prompts *you* 🥴

Honestly, academics could use some health and safety standards asap. So much discussion of "wellness", but so little support and resources for the actual work is (and has been) breaking people.

Fasica is an incredibly gifted writer and storyteller, and it’s been such a joy and privilege to watch her vision come to life. Congrats, @fasica.bsky.social! So well deserved! ❤️

New position paper!

Over the past months, I had the privilege to be part of a great team of scholars, practitioners, and data workers who developed ethical principles for academic data work requesters. These principles have now been published @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/publikatione...

Dicen que “la IA no destruye empleos; sólo los transforma”. Pero esa “transformación” de la que hablan es solo más precarización. Detrás de los algoritmos hay legiones de trabajadores precarizados e invisibilizados: los trabajadores de datos. @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social

In collaboration with Data Workers’ Inquiry, the DLA officially launched on February 13th, 2025, under the theme: “Empowering the People Powering AI.”

Exciting news! We’ve just launched “Organizing Across Borders” by Joan Kinyua - a data labeler, organizer, and president of the Data Labelers Association (DLA). In this inquiry, Joan reflects on the DLA’s formation and the cross-border solidarity that helped make it possible. data-workers.org/DLA/

✨ 📚 Full house at our Book Talk last night! @alexhanna.bsky.social spoke with @milamiceli.bsky.social about her and Emily Bender's new book, THE AI CON. She explained the hype around AI, who profits and who suffers from the damage, and what we can do to resist the push.

Excited to be introducing this latest Inquiry...head to the data workers inquiry website and check out this new inquiry by @joan1k.bsky.social of the @datalabelers.bsky.social

🚨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/

@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”.

We run out of in-person tickets. But the event will be live streamed! youtube.com/live/54i0VSo...

Just casually fan-girling over my signed copy of The AI Con. And the best part? I get to chat with the brilliant @alexhanna.bsky.social about the book tomorrow at 6 PM @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social. If you're in Berlin, come join the conversation. It's going to be a good one! 🎟️ lnkd.in/dUedwiRM

@milamiceli.bsky.social holding a keynote today about Data Workers’ Inquiry at the “Countervailing Platform Power: Regulation, Organizing, and Intersectional Solidarities” conference in Florence, Italy.

@milamiceli.bsky.social joined @baratunde.com on Life with Machines to talk about the Data Workers’ Inquiry, AI impersonation, and more. Check it out on YouTube: youtu.be/4NSWFy11E8Q?...

“If you let workers believe that AI will soon replace them, they are going to try as much as they can to hold on to their jobs, do everything the boss says and behave so that they are not going to be fired,” @milamiceli.bsky.social restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-...

I had a great conversation with @baratunde.com on Life with Machines about the millions of data workers worldwide who produce the data that fuels AI. We dug into the scale of this labor, its deeply human costs, and the possibilities for something better. Watch it here youtu.be/4NSWFy11E8Q?...

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

“Access to data — however extensive — must not be confused with intelligence, which necessarily ‘involves the person’s openness to the ultimate questions of life and reflects an orientation toward the True and the Good’.” Luddite Pope is not backing down on AI.

We're headed to Berlin! Next Monday, I'll be in conversation with @milamiceli.bsky.social about The AI Con! Incredibly excited.

🚨Attention Berlin! Don't miss this conversation with @alexhanna.bsky.social next Monday, June 30, at 6 PM @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Register to attend at tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/sgvbf/

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/

Tens of thousands marched in Berlin yesterday against the genocide in Gaza. We owe this day in no small part to the students who never stopped protesting apartheid and colonialism, despite being beaten, expelled, and severely criminalized by German politicians and media.

El uso excesivo de chatbots de IA tiene un efecto cognitivo adverso: reduce la actividad cerebral, podría generar dependencia tecnológica y debilitar nuestras capacidades de razonamiento y aprendizaje, según el estudio liderado por @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social investigadora del MIT Media Lab.