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Milagros Miceli
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Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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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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dylnbkr.bsky.social
This is what it can look like when research is rooted in lived experience.

A key piece of context on this report is that DAIR researcher Adrienne Williams is a former Amazon delivery driver and organizer herself, and the report builds on many in-depth interviews. ⬇️
dairinstitute.bsky.social The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 19d
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:

Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
milamiceli.bsky.social
I’ve been included among the "100 Brightest Minds in Berlin's Science," a list published annually by Tagesspiegel and widely celebrated by Berlin universities.
page of the German newspaper Tagesspiegel where Milagros Miceli is feature among other scientists from Berlin
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
milamiceli.bsky.social
Check out this powerful report by brilliant colleagues Adrienne Williams, Alex Hanna, and Sandra Barcenas, revealing how Amazon weaponizes technology to exploit its own workers.
dairinstitute.bsky.social The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 19d
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:

Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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jhereia.bsky.social
Want to learn more about how data labour is gendered in its structures, practices & outcomes? Join us for the 5th talk in our Gender & Tech Series on 10/29, 11am EDT, w/ @milamiceli.bsky.social & @tatikmd.bsky.social.
Free & open. Register: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
With @yasmincurzi.com
Poster of the Gender and Tech Online Talk Series, featuring the fifth event: "Data Work and Political Participation." It has a white background with red letters on top, and white letters on a red background in the middle. The poster lists the speakers: Milagros Miceli (DAIR Institute) and Tatiana Dias (The Intercept Brasil), as well as the moderator, Yasmin Curzi. The event takes place on October 29, 11am EDT. It is co-organized by Yasmin Curzi and Jess Reia. There are two logos at the bottom: UVA DTD Lab and UVA School of Data Science.
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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niasoler.bsky.social
Arte es Ética es un colectivo formado por profesionales creativos de diferentes disciplinas cuyo principal objetivo es informar y concienciar sobre el impacto de la IA generativa en el sector creativo y defender los DDHH del abuso de esta tecnología.
@arteesetica.bsky.social

arteesetica.org
Colectivo Arte es Ética - Artivismo y autorías de habla hispana. En defensa de los DDHH frente a la IA generativa en Iberoamérica. https://arteesetica.org/
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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niasoler.bsky.social
La IA generativa está transformando la realidad, pero no del modo «magnánimo» que anuncia su campaña mediática. En este hilo [ampliable] recomiendo la labor de colectivos, organizaciones y personas que investigan e informan, con una postura crítica, sobre los perjuicios de esta tecnología.
“Les Révélations Brutales”, illustration by Bertall (Charles Albert d’Arnoux) from Balzac’s Petites misères de la vie conjugale (1846) Fuente: https://archive.org/details/petitesmisres00balz/page/272/mode/2up
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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oxfamintermon.org
🔥 ¡Nuevo episodio de Mucho hype y pocas nueces!
En este capítulo charlamos con @milamiceli.bsky.social , sobre la cara oculta de la #IA en la que no nos fijamos cuando hacemos una consulta a un chatbot 👇

Lo que sostiene la inteligencia artificial: Los trabajadores invisibilizados, con Milagros Miceli
EthicSound · Episode
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October 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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craicexeter.bsky.social
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?"
October 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
milamiceli.bsky.social
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"
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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taz.de
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
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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oxfamintermon.org
🔥 ¡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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
milamiceli.bsky.social
Starting now! Tune in: youtube.com/live/jA3wSMe...
September 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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tuberlin.bsky.social
#TIME100AI @milamiceli.bsky.social, sociologist & computer scientist at #TUBerlin / @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, is joining the conversation. Be part of it 👇
weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 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
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
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. 💪
September 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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
September 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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khipu-ai.bsky.social
🎉 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:
September 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @milamiceli.bsky.social 🌟

This is a recognition to all of us making the Data Workers’ Inquiry project!
milamiceli.bsky.social 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/...
August 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
milamiceli.bsky.social
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❤️
timnitgebru.bsky.social 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 🧵
Mila's headshot with TIME 100/AI text.
August 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
🏅 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
August 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
milamiceli.bsky.social
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/...
August 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
milamiceli.bsky.social
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.
August 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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
August 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
milamiceli.bsky.social
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/
August 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
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.
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
milamiceli.bsky.social
🚨 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲!
In a clear intimidation attempt, TikTok threatened to dismiss one of the organizers. Out of a team of more than 30 employees, it is precisely the worker who took part in the strike who is to be fired.
August 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM