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taz @taz.de · 9d

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 · 14d

🔥 ¡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 · 21d

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

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Technische Universität Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social · 23d

#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 · 29d

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 · 26d

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 · 29d

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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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

4/x But academia rarely teaches or encourages this kind of research. It is work that centers worker expertise, cooks slowly, requires care, and doesn’t fit into the “publish or perish” logic. To make it possible, we had to develop a whole methodology: data-workers.org/wp-content/u...

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

3/x I designed @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social as a space for data workers to name the companies exploiting them and tell their collective stories in their own terms. I’m honored to be recognized by TIME, but more importantly, I’m proud of the work we’ve been able to do through the project.

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

2/x This recognition is shared with the dozens of data workers who have trusted me with their stories and knowledge over the years. Their exploited labor makes AI possible, while a handful of corporations concentrate the profits and attempt to render them invisible.

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 28

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 👇🧵

Portrait of Milagros Miceli in a frame that reads TIME100/AI 2025.

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 27

The event will be live-streamed at www.youtube.com/live/jA3wSMe...

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

Join us for an evening with the hidden workforce behind AI, get insights into how workers organize against its harsh realities and learn more about our research project The Data Workers’ Inquiry. The ...

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · Aug 27

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/

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Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

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