Casilli
@casilli.bsky.social
🇫🇷 Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris
I write books 📚 Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)📚 and documentaries 🎥In the Belly of AI (2025)🎥
I write books 📚 Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)📚 and documentaries 🎥In the Belly of AI (2025)🎥
It’s been an incredible week in Istanbul. I presented our documentary “In the Belly of AI” at the Cooperative AI conference, discussed recent DiPLab research at the TÜFRAM seminar at Marmara university, enjoyed time with old & new friends, indulged in my unabashed passion for anything Byzantine.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s been an incredible week in Istanbul. I presented our documentary “In the Belly of AI” at the Cooperative AI conference, discussed recent DiPLab research at the TÜFRAM seminar at Marmara university, enjoyed time with old & new friends, indulged in my unabashed passion for anything Byzantine.
If Sam Altman claimed something about a past event — say, a date or a historical episode — would you take his word for it, or would you double-check the facts elsewhere? Then why take him at his word when he talks about things that haven’t happened yet?
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
If Sam Altman claimed something about a past event — say, a date or a historical episode — would you take his word for it, or would you double-check the facts elsewhere? Then why take him at his word when he talks about things that haven’t happened yet?
Sovereignty, justice, and sustainability meet AI infrastructures in places with long histories of political experimentation and environmental struggles—like Chile. On Nov. 21, 3pm, come to our DiPLab seminar ft. Prof. Martin Tironi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: diplab.eu/martin-tiron...
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Sovereignty, justice, and sustainability meet AI infrastructures in places with long histories of political experimentation and environmental struggles—like Chile. On Nov. 21, 3pm, come to our DiPLab seminar ft. Prof. Martin Tironi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: diplab.eu/martin-tiron...
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon MTurk, launched on Nov 2, 2005, to pioneer “artificial artificial intelligence”: using 500,000 underpaid workers to annotate, review, imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today they’re still underpaid but there are tens of millions of them.
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon MTurk, launched on Nov 2, 2005, to pioneer “artificial artificial intelligence”: using 500,000 underpaid workers to annotate, review, imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today they’re still underpaid but there are tens of millions of them.
Bosses always call themselves AI when they’re ready for layoffs.
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Bosses always call themselves AI when they’re ready for layoffs.
« Je ne veux ni le synonyme ni le terme équivalent. »
October 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
« Je ne veux ni le synonyme ni le terme équivalent. »
Il nostro documentario “In the Belly of AI” continua il suo tour dei festival italiani. Dopo Bologna (INDL-8), Modena (finalista DIG Awards), Piacenza (Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo), appuntamento il 1 ottobre alle 21.00, a Torino per il controfestival Italian Tech Resistance.
September 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Il nostro documentario “In the Belly of AI” continua il suo tour dei festival italiani. Dopo Bologna (INDL-8), Modena (finalista DIG Awards), Piacenza (Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo), appuntamento il 1 ottobre alle 21.00, a Torino per il controfestival Italian Tech Resistance.
Dernièrement, trop de discussions sur le "bien-être de l'IA" (si vous le suivez vous savez ce que j'en pense🤮).
Pour contrecarrer ce délire, venez à notre séminaire DiPLab sur le ^bien-être des travailleurs^ des plateforme de data work!
📌Paris 26.9.25, 15h
Inscription ici👉 diplab.eu/diplab-semin...
Pour contrecarrer ce délire, venez à notre séminaire DiPLab sur le ^bien-être des travailleurs^ des plateforme de data work!
📌Paris 26.9.25, 15h
Inscription ici👉 diplab.eu/diplab-semin...
September 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Dernièrement, trop de discussions sur le "bien-être de l'IA" (si vous le suivez vous savez ce que j'en pense🤮).
Pour contrecarrer ce délire, venez à notre séminaire DiPLab sur le ^bien-être des travailleurs^ des plateforme de data work!
📌Paris 26.9.25, 15h
Inscription ici👉 diplab.eu/diplab-semin...
Pour contrecarrer ce délire, venez à notre séminaire DiPLab sur le ^bien-être des travailleurs^ des plateforme de data work!
📌Paris 26.9.25, 15h
Inscription ici👉 diplab.eu/diplab-semin...
That’s the kind of dumb shit you read when a clueless NYT journalist mistakes debating for dialectic.
September 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
That’s the kind of dumb shit you read when a clueless NYT journalist mistakes debating for dialectic.
Last month @theguardian.com did something stupid, and today they fixed it. And I’m in it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
September 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Last month @theguardian.com did something stupid, and today they fixed it. And I’m in it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Hinton insists that if you use ChatGPT at work, AI has stolen your job. So if his girlfriend uses ChatGPT to dump him, I guess AI just stole his girlfriend.
September 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hinton insists that if you use ChatGPT at work, AI has stolen your job. So if his girlfriend uses ChatGPT to dump him, I guess AI just stole his girlfriend.
Tout à fait. C’est l’"argument Autor" du nom du seul économiste qui n’ait pas bu le cool aid. Btw, quand il s’agit du mythe du "grand remplacement mécanique", les géants de la tech sont les premiers à ne pas y croire. v cet entretien de Zuckerberg, où il explique pourquoi IA=plus de travailleurs.
August 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Tout à fait. C’est l’"argument Autor" du nom du seul économiste qui n’ait pas bu le cool aid. Btw, quand il s’agit du mythe du "grand remplacement mécanique", les géants de la tech sont les premiers à ne pas y croire. v cet entretien de Zuckerberg, où il explique pourquoi IA=plus de travailleurs.
Avez-vous vu ces annonces LinkedIn "enseignez à une IA" pour profils bac+8, 25€/h, télétravail facile? Il s'agit d'une vaste opération de comm’ des producteurs d'IA, non pas pour recruter des talents, mais… pour appâter les investisseurs avec le mirage de l'AGI. diplab.eu/the-ai-tutor...
August 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Avez-vous vu ces annonces LinkedIn "enseignez à une IA" pour profils bac+8, 25€/h, télétravail facile? Il s'agit d'une vaste opération de comm’ des producteurs d'IA, non pas pour recruter des talents, mais… pour appâter les investisseurs avec le mirage de l'AGI. diplab.eu/the-ai-tutor...
Last week, Paola Tubaro and I had the honor to participate in the WORK2025 conference. My keynote was titled: “Where does AI come from?”
Paola Tubaro’s presentation was: “Women in the loop: the gendered contribution of data workers to AI”. Find video and summary here: diplab.eu/diplab-resea...
Paola Tubaro’s presentation was: “Women in the loop: the gendered contribution of data workers to AI”. Find video and summary here: diplab.eu/diplab-resea...
August 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Last week, Paola Tubaro and I had the honor to participate in the WORK2025 conference. My keynote was titled: “Where does AI come from?”
Paola Tubaro’s presentation was: “Women in the loop: the gendered contribution of data workers to AI”. Find video and summary here: diplab.eu/diplab-resea...
Paola Tubaro’s presentation was: “Women in the loop: the gendered contribution of data workers to AI”. Find video and summary here: diplab.eu/diplab-resea...
2017: Facebook AI invented a “brand-new language”. Got so scary scientists had to unplug it.
Total BS, yet people don’t keep track.
2025: an OpenAI employee claims GPT-5 invented brand-new math. But as the company's hopes for trillion-dollar investments, no fake fear - and no dramatic unplugging.
Total BS, yet people don’t keep track.
2025: an OpenAI employee claims GPT-5 invented brand-new math. But as the company's hopes for trillion-dollar investments, no fake fear - and no dramatic unplugging.
August 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
2017: Facebook AI invented a “brand-new language”. Got so scary scientists had to unplug it.
Total BS, yet people don’t keep track.
2025: an OpenAI employee claims GPT-5 invented brand-new math. But as the company's hopes for trillion-dollar investments, no fake fear - and no dramatic unplugging.
Total BS, yet people don’t keep track.
2025: an OpenAI employee claims GPT-5 invented brand-new math. But as the company's hopes for trillion-dollar investments, no fake fear - and no dramatic unplugging.
Oh cry me a fucking river.
August 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Oh cry me a fucking river.
The documentary is finished and was already broadcast in France Japan Finland (other countries are coming soon) plus it’s available on a few online platforms. Check with the international distribution company Federation studios federationstudios.com/is/in-the-be...
July 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The documentary is finished and was already broadcast in France Japan Finland (other countries are coming soon) plus it’s available on a few online platforms. Check with the international distribution company Federation studios federationstudios.com/is/in-the-be...
INDL-8 is only 60 days away! Keynotes feature @ubiquity75.xyz, Joan Kinyua, Sandro Mezzadra et al. Special events include: a panel discussion with data workers inside one of Europe's biggest data centers, a counterculture city tour of Bologna, and more. Register at👉 www.indl.network/its-60-days-...
July 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
INDL-8 is only 60 days away! Keynotes feature @ubiquity75.xyz, Joan Kinyua, Sandro Mezzadra et al. Special events include: a panel discussion with data workers inside one of Europe's biggest data centers, a counterculture city tour of Bologna, and more. Register at👉 www.indl.network/its-60-days-...
INDL-8 “Contesting Digital Labor: Resistance, counter-uses, and new directions for research” is coming up! Did you register to join us and 200+ participants in Bologna, Italy, on 10–12 September 2025? It’s free to attend — just make sure to register. www.indl.network/indl-8/
July 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
INDL-8 “Contesting Digital Labor: Resistance, counter-uses, and new directions for research” is coming up! Did you register to join us and 200+ participants in Bologna, Italy, on 10–12 September 2025? It’s free to attend — just make sure to register. www.indl.network/indl-8/
On parle beaucoup des livreurs, mais qui connaît les dispatchers? Ils corrigent les algorithmes & réaffectent les commandes des plateformes de livraison.
🎙️ On en parle le 3/07 à 15h30 à l’ISC-PIF avec Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco.
👉 Séminaire gratuit, inscription obligatoire diplab.eu/welcoming-fr...
🎙️ On en parle le 3/07 à 15h30 à l’ISC-PIF avec Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco.
👉 Séminaire gratuit, inscription obligatoire diplab.eu/welcoming-fr...
June 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
On parle beaucoup des livreurs, mais qui connaît les dispatchers? Ils corrigent les algorithmes & réaffectent les commandes des plateformes de livraison.
🎙️ On en parle le 3/07 à 15h30 à l’ISC-PIF avec Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco.
👉 Séminaire gratuit, inscription obligatoire diplab.eu/welcoming-fr...
🎙️ On en parle le 3/07 à 15h30 à l’ISC-PIF avec Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco.
👉 Séminaire gratuit, inscription obligatoire diplab.eu/welcoming-fr...
𝑨𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝑷𝑳𝒂𝒃 𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 3 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚 3:30𝒑𝒎
Are delivery platforms over? Facing global scrutiny, million € fines, labor law rulings… Join us in welcoming Prof. Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco to study these developments with a Global South lens.
Register here👉 diplab.eu/welcoming-fr...
Are delivery platforms over? Facing global scrutiny, million € fines, labor law rulings… Join us in welcoming Prof. Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco to study these developments with a Global South lens.
Register here👉 diplab.eu/welcoming-fr...
June 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
𝑨𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝑷𝑳𝒂𝒃 𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 3 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚 3:30𝒑𝒎
Are delivery platforms over? Facing global scrutiny, million € fines, labor law rulings… Join us in welcoming Prof. Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco to study these developments with a Global South lens.
Register here👉 diplab.eu/welcoming-fr...
Are delivery platforms over? Facing global scrutiny, million € fines, labor law rulings… Join us in welcoming Prof. Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco to study these developments with a Global South lens.
Register here👉 diplab.eu/welcoming-fr...
I was walking in the streets of Buenos Aires, when I realized something was gone. There was an absence I couldn’t name.
Then I saw it. The doormen had vanished.
Then I saw it. The doormen had vanished.
June 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I was walking in the streets of Buenos Aires, when I realized something was gone. There was an absence I couldn’t name.
Then I saw it. The doormen had vanished.
Then I saw it. The doormen had vanished.
An afternoon at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome.
May 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
An afternoon at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome.
En 1950 Turing invente le Test du même nom. Dans le même texte il imagine aussi une IA comme une "machine-enfant" qui apprend, ressent, souffre. Le 23 mai à Paris, Evan Selinger explorera cet héritage dans notre séminaire DiPLab. 17h, Maison de la Recherche. Inscription👉 tinyurl.com/diplab-selin...
May 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
En 1950 Turing invente le Test du même nom. Dans le même texte il imagine aussi une IA comme une "machine-enfant" qui apprend, ressent, souffre. Le 23 mai à Paris, Evan Selinger explorera cet héritage dans notre séminaire DiPLab. 17h, Maison de la Recherche. Inscription👉 tinyurl.com/diplab-selin...
Rendez-vous le 23 mai à 17h à la Maison de la Recherche de Paris pour écouter le philosophe Evan Selinger!On parlera de l’obsession des milliardaires de la tech pour créer des IA anthropomorphes—et de ce que cela dit de notre rapport à l’idée même d’humanité.
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May 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Rendez-vous le 23 mai à 17h à la Maison de la Recherche de Paris pour écouter le philosophe Evan Selinger!On parlera de l’obsession des milliardaires de la tech pour créer des IA anthropomorphes—et de ce que cela dit de notre rapport à l’idée même d’humanité.
Inscription👉 tinyurl.com/diplab-selin...
Inscription👉 tinyurl.com/diplab-selin...