AI is neither Artificial nor Intelligent—its supply chain is a tangled web of exploitation..." And so unfolded an afternoon of rich dialogue with some of the sharpest minds at the best Law school in the US. This was never in my village career guidance booklet! #Ngiyabongamina

📢 🇪🇺 Am 21. November sprachen erstmals Datenarbeiter:innen im EU-Parlament über die prekären und ausbeuterischen Arbeitsbedingungen in der #KI-Branche. An ihrer Seite stand Weizenbaum Forscherin Milagros Miceli #datawork Hier gehts zu Bericht 👇 weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/da…

Paper alert! Tianling Yang & Milagros Miceli 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 doi.org/10.1145/3686904

New publication by David Hartman 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 doi.org/10.1007/s43681…

New article from Fatma Elsafoury🇵🇸 #CeaseFireEveryWhereNow: 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! bpb.de/lernen/bewegtb… (english: efatmae.github.io/posts/2024/11/…)

I am thrilled to announce our (w/Tianling Yang Milagros Miceli) research article "What Knowledge Do We Produce from Social Media Data and How?" won Best Paper Award at ACM GROUP Conference (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…)

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

Data Labellers and annotators are literally the lifeblood of any AI systems, Machines are stupid, they don't know a tree from a cup, yet the people who enable this recognition to happen are often neglected and invisibilised. We are elated to support this initiative

The Data Labelers Association advocates for the rights, fair pay, job security, and mental and occupational health of data labelers and annotators! Join the Launch on February 13, 18h CET / 12PM ET twitch.tv/dair_institute

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. open.spotify.com/episode/3u2iq9…

Amid the hullabaloo caused by DeepSeek, its esential that I remind you that none of these systems are truly "artificial" or "intelligent" Without human intervention, they cant distinguish a cup from a puppy. Set your calendars and hear more at the DLA launch!

1/4 Exciting News! David Hartmann et al.'s paper, "Lost in Moderation: How Commercial Content Moderation APIs Over- and Under-Moderate Group-Targeted Hate Speech and Linguistic Variations," has been accepted to CHI Conference 2025.

Next Monday, we are thrilled to welcome Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) 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 (thecon.ai) 🔗Register here: tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/sgvbf/