This is what it can look like when research is rooted in lived experience. A key piece of context on this report is that DAIR researcher Adrienne Williams is a former Amazon delivery driver and organizer herself, and the report builds on many in-depth interviews. ⬇️

I’ve been included among the "100 Brightest Minds in Berlin's Science," a list published annually by Tagesspiegel and widely celebrated by Berlin universities.

Check out this powerful report by brilliant colleagues Adrienne Williams, Alex Hanna, and Sandra Barcenas, revealing how Amazon weaponizes technology to exploit its own workers.

Want to learn more about how data labour is gendered in its structures, practices & outcomes? Join us for the 5th talk in our Gender & Tech Series on 10/29, 11am EDT, w/ @milamiceli.bsky.social & @tatikmd.bsky.social. Free & open. Register: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi... With @yasmincurzi.com

Arte es Ética es un colectivo formado por profesionales creativos de diferentes disciplinas cuyo principal objetivo es informar y concienciar sobre el impacto de la IA generativa en el sector creativo y defender los DDHH del abuso de esta tecnología. @arteesetica.bsky.social arteesetica.org

La IA generativa está transformando la realidad, pero no del modo «magnánimo» que anuncia su campaña mediática. En este hilo [ampliable] recomiendo la labor de colectivos, organizaciones y personas que investigan e informan, con una postura crítica, sobre los perjuicios de esta tecnología.

🔥 ¡Nuevo episodio de Mucho hype y pocas nueces! En este capítulo charlamos con @milamiceli.bsky.social , sobre la cara oculta de la #IA en la que no nos fijamos cuando hacemos una consulta a un chatbot 👇

Our second panel, Critical AI and Social/Data/Science, chaired by @gildersleve.uk, featured great discussion on identity, computational workers, and social impacts of AI thanks to online and in-person speakers @shugars.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social, Peaks Krafft, and @lucyosler.bsky.social

These past few weeks, I’ve done a lot of public engagement, and it’s reminded me how hard science communication can be!

Damit KI und Social Media nutzbar werden, blicken Data-Worker im Verborgenen in Abgründe. In Kenia regt sich nun aber Widerstand. taz.de/Data-Worker-...

🔥 ¡Estamos de estreno! A partir del jueves 25/09 podrás escuchar Mucho hype y pocas nueces 🎙️ Un podcast que va más allá del ruido para destapar las desigualdades que esconde la inteligencia artificial.

Starting now! Tune in: youtube.com/live/jA3wSMe...

#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