Milagros Miceli

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 👇🧵

Por eso mismo siempre recomendamos que sigan y lean el sitio de Data Workers Inquiry. Ahí van a encontrar piezas como esta, de Horacio Espinosa; en gran variedad de formatos, donde cada uno de los trabajadores cuenta su propia experiencia de forma testimonial. bsky.app/profile/data...

Ni magia ni autonomía. Ni progreso ni innovación. La IA funciona a base de la explotación y precarización de millones de trabajadores de datos. «Esta tecnología está basada en el trabajo en negro, en el trabajo precarizado, en el trabajo explotador de millones de trabajadores» 🎯 Milagros Miceli.

You, me, and anyone with internet access do unpaid, uncredited data work to feed AI models. What is data work, and why does it matter? I discuss this in this interview with DW. I also cover labor exploitation, classification and bias, and power concentration in the AI industry: p.dw.com/p/5O0Mm

🥳We're turning 5!🥳 Join our biggest gathering yet to celebrate what we've accomplished and hear what's next. More exciting details to come 👀 RSVP on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/dairs-5th-...

Later today, there's a fantastic (online) panel discussion coming up on the politics of research and journalism on data work and AI with Dorcus Maundu, @milamiceli.bsky.social and @rinachandran.bsky.social Register here: us04web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

WEBINAR 23 OCT 16:00 UTC: Data Labelers Association - Confronting the politics of research and journalism on data work and AI isoc.live/22414 Toolkit launch. With Dorcus Maundu, @milamiceli.bsky.social & @rinachandran.bsky.social #DataWorkers #DataLabelers #AIEthics #AIJustice

Ich habe mit @milamiceli.bsky.social über die Arbeitsbedingungen von Data Workers gesprochen. Also von jenen Menschen, die unter prekären Bedingungen unsere KIs trainieren oder grausliche Inhalte von Social Media Plattformen löschen, damit sie uns erspart bleiben. oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

NEW PROJECT LAUNCH! 🚀 DAIR's @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social and @superrrnetwork.bsky.social are building a network to strengthen data-worker-led movements around the world. The website launches in mid-November. Sign up at dataworkersunited.org for updates!

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Announcing! 📢 Data Workers United Data Workers’ Inquiry has always been more than only an academic project. The investigations led by data workers document the challenges, exploitation and precarity faced by data workers all over the world. But resistance and action are always a part of the story 🪡

"'Without data workers, tech companies do not have a product,' @milamiceli.bsky.social said. 'So there should be space for bargaining power.'" www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Join us for the launch of our new resource, an archive of 2010s higher ed protest in the U.S. and Canada, designed for campus activists and others working on left and liberatory organizing. Register on Eventbrite for a panel discussion and tour of the site: www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

El Ludismo era una DEFENSA DEL OFICIO, una DEFENSA DE LO BELLO, una DEFENSA DEL ARTE, y una DEFENSA DE LA CALIDAD de lo que producían. Es decir, una defensa de todo aquello que está en la vereda opuesta de la IA generativa. 👉 www.instagram.com/p/Ddz1qdCFFdp/ ¡Gracias @milamiceli.bsky.social !

Necessary voices for all of humankind. I do not say that lightly.

What happens when an AI researcher challenges the direction of the industry from within? Meet @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, one of the 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates — a pioneering researcher confronting concentrated power in artificial intelligence. rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

Thrilled to announce that the De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies, co-edited by @ulises-mejias.bsky.social , @jasminemcnealy.com, and yours truly, is now out! 33 chapters, 50+ authors, and a wide range of perspectives on power, policy, methods, case studies, and resistance.

Cuando el cuerpo humano se convierte en la materia prima para alimentar sistemas de IA. «Lo primero que me llamó la atención fue lo que se les pedía a estos trabajadores: No solo su tiempo. No solo su atención. Sino sus cuerpos, sus hogares, sus hijos» James Mojez Oyange, para Data Worker´s Inquiry

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New book out: De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies. Edited by Ulises Mejias (ulises-mejias.bsky.social), Jasmine McNealy (@jasminemcnealy.com) and Milagros Miceli (@milamiceli.bsky.social). Thanks to the authors of this incredible collection of 33 chapters! tnyr.me#NAUVTms1Dm

The De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies is out! The first Critical Data Studies handbook, with 30 chapters and research on AI, data activism, data extractivism and surveillance from all over the world. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

What happens to consent in a workplace where refusing a request means losing work? Find out in the new report by James Mojez Oyange, one of the workers whose face, voice and documents were collected by the companies that employed him. data-workers.org/mojez/

"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations. urlvanish.com/0a108bae

"I imagine myself as a small stone in a powerful gear mechanism, so that data workers are not completely run over without any resistance." From @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, a firsthand account of conditions and resistance from Apple's outsourced data workers. data-workers.org/luciana/

Hidden data workers at Apple, training LLMs? In Europe? Of course! And you know what? The pattern is depressingly familiar: outsourcing, price discrimination, precarization, alienation. But don’t take it from me. Have a look at Luciana’s firsthand investigation 👇

Highly recommend this by @morganklauss.bsky.social @perhaxis.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social et al re: AI data workers “caught within a regime of entrapment: interconnected mechanisms that make it difficult for workers to leave or improve positions” www.morgan-klaus.com/pdfs/pubs/Ka...

🏆We got an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica 2026!! Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most prestigious awards at the intersection of art, technology, and society, and a huge recognition to our commitment to advancing worker-led, collective knowledge production ➡️ archive.aec.at/prix/319125/

Congratulations to the Data Workers' Inquiry team. Incredibly well deserved 🎉🎉🎉

Incredibly well deserved. Huge congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

I am incredibly proud and honored by this recognition and look forward to seeing some of our work exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival. I'll be there to receive the award! 📅 9–13 September 2026 📍 Linz, Austria

🤖 AI systems rely on more than algorithms - they also depend on the labor of millions of data workers. How can AI governance better protect their rights and amplify their voices? Join our online panel tomorrow. ➡️ Register here: t1p.de/yrvw5

Very proud of this collaboration with @utaw.tech, and delighted to see Fasica Berhane putting her exceptional reporting skills at the service of TikTok workers in London. Thanks @joxn.bsky.social for supporting the making of this report! ➡️ data-workers.org/fasica-utaw/

Laurenz Sachenbacher from @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social joins Neo-Cypherpunk Summit lineup! He is completing master's in the field of Philosophy of Technology at TU Berlin. Expert in Marxist theory, the history of labor struggles, and ethical reflections on tech. s26ber.web3privacy.info

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

We are THRILLED to announce DAIR x GHOST fundraiser: if you haven't seen the film - or if you have - May 10 - 13 pay what you can to rent GHOST IN THE MACHINE on Kinema, all proceeds go to the freshest research in the space! Register and rent: notaidoc.com/dairxghost

Am Mi, 27.5., 18 Uhr bringen wir @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social kritische Perspektiven auf #KünstlicheIntelligenz miteinander ins Gespräch. Ich freue mich den Abend mit @milamiceli.bsky.social @rainerrehak.bsky.social und @akeiner.bsky.social! Anmeldung: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...

AI is not replacing humans, said @milamiceli.bsky.social in a visionary talk at the Brussels Economic Forum. She said "nobody was fired because of AI, it is still a managerial decision". The research lead at @dairinstitute.bsky.social added: 'AI will always need the input of humans.'

🚨D-7 The call for papers for INDL-9 is still open—until April 30, 2026. This time our annual conference will be hosted on Sept 9–11, 2026 at the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva. www.indl.network/indl-9/ cc. @ubiquity75.xyz @posada.website @milamiceli.bsky.social #ai #work #labor

Nuestro objetivo es recopilar historias y testimonios con los que componer un mosaico que refleje la realidad multifacética de trabajar en el mundo de la traducción. Más info (en inglés): www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...

«Te informamos de que hemos cambiado nuestra forma de trabajar y a partir de ahora todas las solicitudes de proyectos que recibas serán de posedición. Esta es nuestra tarifa de posedición». En resumidas cuentas, se trataba de un «lo tomas o lo dejas».

Heute gab es das erste Fachgespräch zu Datenarbeit überhaupt im Bundestag. Dass das Thema endlich auf der politischen Agenda ist, ein riesiges Verdienst der beharrlichen Arbeit von Joan, Milagros und Julia. Sie haben zahlreiche Ideen, wie es besser gehen könnte. Hier lest ihr meine Zusammenfassung:

Heute sprach Weizenbaum-Forscherin Milagros Miceli im Bundestag über über die Arbeitsbedingungen von Datenarbeiter:innen, also von Beschäftigten, die Daten für das Training von KI-Systemen kennzeichnen und aufbereiten. 👉 Weitere Infos auf unserer Website: buff.ly/9BowXaS

📅 This Friday, April 17 ⏱️ 9AM PT / 6PM CEST Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social for a conversation on border & surveillance tech covering • Our latest projects on refugees & AI • A panel with Respond Crisis Translation • A workshop to imagine alternative tech futures 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-a...

Traducción al español del trabajo de Adrienne Williams y @milamiceli.bsky.social Data Work and its Layers of (In)Visibility en el sitio de la cátedra "Políticas de la Convergencia" (Comunicación UBA): El trabajo con datos y sus capas de (in)visibilidad politicasconvergencia.com.ar/traduccion-d...

Im Bundestag wurde heute erstmals darüber gesprochen, wie die Bedingungen für Datenarbeiter:innen hinter KI verbessert werden können. Joan Kinyua von @datalabelers.bsky.social, Forscherin @milamiceli.bsky.social & @jkloiber.bsky.social von @superrrnetwork.bsky.social lieferten zahlreiche Vorschläge.

El fanzine «Trabajando para la Máquina: Fragmentos de vida y muerte de un moderador de contenido» expone las consecuencias psicológicas para los moderadores de contenido de META y de otras Big Tech. «Nada peor que mostrar humanidad en un lugar que se alimenta de cadáveres digitales»

Pocas veces me verán recomendar algo con tanto énfasis como este fanzine sobre quienes filtran lo peor de internet para que el resto no tengamos que verlo. Lectura obligatoria si realmente querés saber lo que es la moderación de contenido. Disponible también en español: data-workers.org/horacio/