Who is Really Fueling your #AI? Join us on September 17 to discuss precarization and resistance in #datawork, with the Data Workers' Inquiry, @milamiceli and @superrr. Don't miss your chance to meet some of the shadow workforce behind AI. https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltungen/detailseite/who-is-really-fueling-your-ai/

DATA WORKERS UNITE!

Join us for an evening with the hidden workforce behind AI:

Keynote by @milamiceli "AI is a Lot of (Data) Work: On Hidden Labor, Resistance, and Academic Solidarity."

Panel featuring four data workers
"The Workers Who Make AI Possible."

We are excited to be co-hosting this event with the Data Workers Inquiry.

Register now!
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/who-is-really-fueling-your-ai

✴️ Find the rich repository of or works produced by co-researchers in the Data Workers' Inquiry at https://data-workers.org/, ranging from animated shorts to in depth reports to podcasts to documentaries.

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.

https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305825/milagros-miceli/

🚨 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲!
In a clear intimidation attempt, TikTok threatened to dismiss one of the strike 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.

https://www.t-online.de/region/berlin/id_100871130/berlin-erst-gestreikt-dann-gekuendigt-verdi-erhebt-vorwuerfe-gegen-tiktok.html

The event is in-person, but livestream is available: https://www.youtube.com/live/jA3wSMeGUas

📅 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵.
⏱️ 𝟭𝟳:𝟬𝟬 – 𝟭𝟵:𝟯𝟬
📍Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstrasse 32, in Berlin.
🌐 R𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: https://tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/jl89e/

Who is really fueling your AI? 🤔 It's not just code & algorithms. Behind every large language model are millions of people, often in invisible roles. Join us and the Data Workers’ Inquiry for a talk and panel to hear directly from data workers! September 17th, with @milamiceli & @superrr

🔗 Register here: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/detail/who-is-really-fueling-your-ai/

#AI #DataWork

📣 We're excited to co-organize a transnational data worker assembly together with @superrr & Data Workers' Inquiry on September 16-17 at @Weizenbaum_Institut in Berlin.

While the first day is closed-door, we’ll host a public event on the 17th.
👉 Program and registration: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/who-is-really-fueling-your-ai/

🚨NEW INQUIRY!

Joan Kinyua from Data Labelers Association discusses beginnings, gratitude, and partnerships in this piece.

Data Workers' Inquiry is an active partner of the DLA, and we remain united in the fight for the rights of data workers worldwide!

https://data-workers.org/dla/

Next Monday, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Alex Hanna (Director of Research at DAIR) to the @Weizenbaum_Institut for a conversation about her new book, THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (https://thecon.ai/)

🔗Register here: https://tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/sgvbf/

Check out this new action-forward contribution from this amazing project!

📢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: https://data-workers.org/kauna/

Let's take care of the Internet! David Hartmann 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. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3u2iq9GD6yvn2569MnosFJ?si=FyDiuLDDRk6EtAvIBCYYQg

Just published with a Best Paper award! Adriana Alvarado, Tianling Yang & Milagros Miceli examine the discursive strategies in the paper that combine social media data and computational methods.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3701216

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! https://www.bpb.de/lernen/bewegtbild-und-politische-bildung/556762/diskriminierung/ (english: https://efatmae.github.io/posts/2024/11/blog-post-6/)

New publication by David Hartmann 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 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00595-3

Paper alert! @TianlingY & @MilagrosMiceli 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3686904

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 @FatmaElsafoury 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 https://efatmae.github.io/files/Fatma-Elsafoury-PhD-thesis.pdf

Do you want to know 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. https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/portrait/p/tianling-yang/#page=1&sort=date