Aída Ponce Del Castillo

The Council's latest compromise text on the Digital Omnibus contains a provision that deserves closer scrutiny: Article 88bis GDPR. It has significant consequences for employment relations

¿Cómo está transformando la IA el empleo y el mundo del trabajo? youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hoy en Valencia, en el Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas. Seminario sobre la IA y sus impactos en el empleo. Apuntarse!

[📣 Change of date! This webinar has been moved from 5 to 23 October] Don't miss the next #AItalks webinar, with guest speaker Anna Milanez, labour market economist at the OECD, and host @aidaponcedelcastillo.com

Meta into existential funk? www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

AI tools ignore guardrails: Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons Jailbreaks present a different kind of risk to those seen with the recent slew of high-profile AI incidents www.bbc.com/news/article...

How deeply is AI transforming universities as organisations? What kind of universities are we going to have in the future? As universities become increasingly embedded in digital infrastructures and partnerships with AI companies, what decisions will they still be able to make independently?

𝑼𝒏𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒎𝒏𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒔. 𝑺𝒊𝒙 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 I'm interested in how the regulatory simplification is designed. Here I have a look at the environmental omnibus package and it's framing www.etui.org/news/unpacki...

State of the Union 2026 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 AI Workplaces, get ready: "Moving AI from the screen to the real economy and society. On the factory floor. On the hospital ward. In precision agriculture. In our energy grids. Smart grids..." commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

💻 Don't miss the next #AItalks webinar, with guest speaker Anna Milanez, labour market economist at the OECD, and host @aidaponcedelcastillo.com

Join me in the next AI Talk with Anna Milanez

The 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝟑.𝟎 international conference is already here! I am excited to co-organise the third edition of Cyborg Workers 3.0 in Brussels: This year's theme is 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 📍 Brussels 📅 15–16 October 2026 www.etui.org/events/cybor...

The Digital Omnibus reopens central parts of the GDPR. Aida Ponce Del Castillo argues changes to foundational legal concepts have consequences that reach well beyond the regulation itself.

Latest piece on the Digital Omnibus and it's risks

"Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story. Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Building 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 with our @etui.bsky.social training course on strategic foresight edition 2026 in Brugge. What to know more? Get in touch !

Brand new 📚 at our ETUI Documentation Centre

The European Commission’s push to simplify digital regulation is raising growing concerns from the perspective of workers’ rights. #DigitalOmnibus finunions.org/en/digital-d... @aidaponcedelcastillo.com @etui.bsky.social

'Human-in-the-loop' , does that really work? Where is the evidence?

Bienvenidos a México 🇲🇽 ! A World Cup with a social reality in the background: As the legendary Azteca roars, madres buscadoras march for their desaparecidos, teachers strike, farmers protest for fair 🌽 prices, society aiming to leverage the media attention to spotlight the social unrest

🎬You can watch our exciting panel on Gendered Digital Labour

The EC's CADA, and infrastructure policy & tech sovereignty instrument. It seeks to accelerate cloud and AI deployment across sectors, but cloud + computing + AI capacity does not mean being at the top in competitiveness digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/p...

I do hope Europe will soon be done with American Big Tech. But what about the Omnibus?!

Do androids dream of mass layoffs? Mass layoffs due to AI have already begun and even have a name: mega layoffs. What is missing is a plan to protect workers from the effects of the supposed www.rivistastudio.com/lavoro-licen...

The missing water dimension of the EU sustainable AI debate: a new piece in the recent @etui.bsky.social Green Newsletter: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫? 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐚𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐔 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐰 www.etui.org/news/who-get...

Where are those jobs that AI will bring? When are we going to see them? youtube.com/shorts/xJzqu...

WIRED experts will discuss how AI is transforming work....

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲? Sensitive data, genetic, health, behavioural mixed, matched & cross-referenced across systems, uncovering patterns traditional analysis misses. No technical barrier stops it Today @cpdpconferences.bsky.social 14h15 More info: www.cpdpconferences.org/schedule

𝗪𝗲, 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀, 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆

Analysing deeper levels of workplace surveillance. What happens when Palantir walks into your workplace? Join us tomorrow afternoon @cpdpconferences.bsky.social in the Classroom

L'IA transforme le monde du travail, mais pas de façon égale? Interviewée par @rfi.fr j'alerte : les femmes sont surreprésentées dans les emplois les plus menacés par l'automatisation, et sous-représentées dans les formations pour s'adapter. rfi.fr/fr/économie/20260515-développement-de-l

"'There is just so much pressure to use these tools. Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.'... 'Managers are looking at it. When they track usage it creates perverse incentives and some people are very competitive about it.'" www.ft.com/content/8ee0...

Tune in today at 15h00 and let's discuss with @mandree.bsky.social

𝐀𝐈 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤, 𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞́𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜̧𝐚𝐢𝐬 🎧 Lundi 11 mai, je serai en ligne avec Martin Andree pour parler d’un sujet crucial : la bataille pour le contrôle des médias numériques, la domination des #BigTech, et les risques sur nos démocraties Inscrivez-vous www.etui.org/events/media...