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The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social · 14h

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

Online speaker Shugars presenting a slide with a graphic: "AI is for losers. I can make art that's ugly and bad all by myself. Thank you very much!"

Online speaker Milagros Miceli presenting a slide on the Data Workers' Inquiry project

Speaker Peaks Krafft presenting their work

Speaker Lucy Osler presenting in front of a slide titled "AI Gossip?"

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 1d

But striking the right balance between accuracy and accessibility when communicating is really tricky. Each engagement demands different timing, caters to different audiences, and allows different levels of depth. And I'm definitely trying to get better at it all!

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve always admired researchers like @dylnbkr.bsky.social who can communicate clearly, engagingly, and charmingly because I care deeply about producing knowledge that’s accessible and not just for the books. Our repository at Data Workers' Inquiry is a testimony of that: data-workers.org#Inquiries

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Data Workers' Inquiry

data-workers.org

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 1d

And by Pedro Molina for @natgeoesp.bsky.social: www.nationalgeographic.com.es/tecnologia/m...

Milagros Miceli: “La IA no funciona sola y necesita del trabajo humano”

La socióloga e informática estudia las condiciones laborales de las personas detrás de la IA y ha sido reconocida entre las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo en su área.

www.nationalgeographic.com.es

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 1d

I was brilliantly interviewed by @chulkinet.bsky.social for Forbes:
www.forbesargentina.com/innovacion/m...

Milagros Miceli, la argentina distinguida por Time: "Sin el trabajo de las personas, no tendríamos IA ni redes sociales"

Forbes conversó con Milagros Miceli, distinguida como una de las 100 personas más influyentes en materia de inteligencia artificial. Comparte la lista con Sam Altman, Elon Musk o Jensen Huang, entre o...

www.forbesargentina.com

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 1d

I did several radio segments, social media conversations, and even a late-night show in Argentina!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkgc...

Milagros Miceli y el lado B de la inteligencia artificial que asombró a Pergolini y Yanina Latorre

YouTube video by eltrece

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 1d

I held keynotes and participated in panels, both in person and online. A recording of the keynote I held a few weeks ago at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social and the panel with data workers that followed can be watched here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Q1...

Who is Really Fueling your AI? Precarization and Resistance in Data Work

YouTube video by Weizenbaum-Institut

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 1d

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

Milagros Miceli at the Argentinian late-night-show "Otro Día Perdido"

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taz @taz.de · 11d

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-...

„Du siehst abgetrennte Gliedmaßen und vor dir die 180 Aufgaben, die abzuarbeiten sind.“
Veronica Oduor* (*Name geändert) ist Contentmoderatorin. Die Bilder, die sie an ihren Arbeitstagen sieht, so verstörend, dass sie auf keinen Fall auf Social Media erscheinen dürfen

In Kenia ist das Trainieren von KI und Moderieren von Inhalten aus sozialen Netzwerken ein ganzer Wirtschaftszweig. Viele der Arbeitenden leiden unter den Inhalten, die sie dort täglich sehen müssen. Einige von ihnen organisieren sich, für mehr psychologische Hilfe, bessere Bezahlung und politische Teilhabe

„Die Konfrontation mit belastenden Inhalten mag zum Moderieren dazugehören, aber Traumata müssen nicht sein.“

Christy Hoffman, Generalsekretärin der Gewerkschaft UNI Global. Technologieunternehmen sollten, wie auch andere Branchen, ihre Mitarbeiter*innen schützen

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Oxfam Intermón @oxfamintermon.org · 16d

🔥 ¡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.

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Technische Universität Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social · 25d

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

Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 28d

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. 💪

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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khipu.ai @khipu-ai.bsky.social · Sep 3

🎉 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:

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you, my friend! 🥹❤️

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Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · Aug 28

Huge congrats to @milamiceli.bsky.social 🌟

This is a recognition to all of us making the Data Workers’ Inquiry project!

Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

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/...

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

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❤️

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Aug 28

🎉🎉🎉 Friends, I’m going to take ask a minute of your time to celebrate @milamiceli.bsky.social who I met through @alexhanna.bsky.social in 2022, just a couple of months after we launched @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🧵

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Aug 28

🏅 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

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

gracias, amigo!

Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

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/...

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

8/x At a time when concentrated power in the AI industry fuels surveillance, manipulation, and genocide, I want to make sure that this recognition is not seen as mine alone. It belongs to the workers who resist, organize, and struggle every day for a just technological future for everyone.

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

7/x My research is neither done in a vacuum nor meant to be objective; it is shaped by my own experiences of migration, precarious work, lack, loss, and by the conviction that research only matters if it helps transform reality.

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

6/x I am who I am, and I do the work I do because working and supporting my family from a very young age taught me that labor without community, solidarity, and organizing is just alienation.

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

5/x I didn’t have the chance to earn a degree until later in life, and I worked many jobs before becoming an academic. Those experiences taught me a great deal and helped me navigate my research work, despite growing up in a working-class family and being a first-generation college graduate.

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