Maia Woluchem
@mwoluchem.bsky.social
Program Director of Trustworthy Infrastructures @datasociety.bsky.social & talking about racial capitalism @ NYU Wagner. Formerly Ford Foundation, MIT DUSP. She/her.
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On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @mwoluchem.bsky.social, @livgar.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi from @datasociety.bsky.social about their research trips across Pennsylvania, where they learned about the current and future impacts of the nascent AI data center industry in the state.
September 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @mwoluchem.bsky.social, @livgar.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi from @datasociety.bsky.social about their research trips across Pennsylvania, where they learned about the current and future impacts of the nascent AI data center industry in the state.
On the road again! Latest dispatch from Three Mile Island from @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi and me, this time from outside a Bon Ton.
With a deal to provide nuclear-powered energy to data centers, Three Mile Island is coming back online to power the AI boom. As @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi, & @mwoluchem.bsky.social write, locals are wrestling with how to handle AI-driven industrial change. datasociety.net/points/in-pe...
August 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
On the road again! Latest dispatch from Three Mile Island from @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi and me, this time from outside a Bon Ton.
Commentary today from TI’s brilliant @livgar.bsky.social and many other experts about Meta’s profoundly disturbing chatbot policies and their real human impacts. Essential reflections for any and all of us using the internet
Last week, Reuters published two articles by journalist Jeff Horwitz reporting concerning details about Meta's AI chatbot policies and products and how they affect children and vulnerable adults. Tech Policy Press invited experts to submit reactions to the reports—here are their responses:
Experts React to Reuters Reports on Meta's AI Chatbot Policies | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press invited a range of experts to submit reactions to concerning reports on Meta's AI chatbot policies and products.
www.techpolicy.press
August 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Commentary today from TI’s brilliant @livgar.bsky.social and many other experts about Meta’s profoundly disturbing chatbot policies and their real human impacts. Essential reflections for any and all of us using the internet
Grateful to @justinhendrix.bsky.social for facilitating this necessary conversation between @smw.bsky.social, Ryan Gerety, and me on why this AI Action Plan is so dangerous and what we can do about it. Listen/read here:
Yesterday, the Trump administration unveiled its AI Action Plan. Shortly after it was published, Justin Hendrix sat down with the AI Now Institute's Sarah Myers West, Data & Society's Maia Woluchem, and the Athena Coalition's Ryan Gerety to discuss the plan and what it portends for the future.
Considering Trump’s AI Plan and the Future It Portends | TechPolicy.Press
A podcast discussion with the AI Now Institute's Sarah Myers West, Data and Society's Maia Woluchem, and Athena for All's Ryan Gerety.
www.techpolicy.press
July 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Grateful to @justinhendrix.bsky.social for facilitating this necessary conversation between @smw.bsky.social, Ryan Gerety, and me on why this AI Action Plan is so dangerous and what we can do about it. Listen/read here:
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Trump's new #AIActionPlan threatens to expand the surveillance and criminalization of our people under the guise of “innovation.”
We’re breaking down what this means and how we can resist next WEDS, 7/30 at 6PM ET | 3PM PT,
bit.ly/our-techfuture
We’re breaking down what this means and how we can resist next WEDS, 7/30 at 6PM ET | 3PM PT,
bit.ly/our-techfuture
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trump's new #AIActionPlan threatens to expand the surveillance and criminalization of our people under the guise of “innovation.”
We’re breaking down what this means and how we can resist next WEDS, 7/30 at 6PM ET | 3PM PT,
bit.ly/our-techfuture
We’re breaking down what this means and how we can resist next WEDS, 7/30 at 6PM ET | 3PM PT,
bit.ly/our-techfuture
@tamigraph.bsky.social and I get to some mythbusting today about data centers and the supposed future they bring. Long story short: 😬
Data Centers Aren't the Future of American Prosperity- @tamigraph.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social bust the myths of data centers: they don't massively increase jobs, they don't increase clean energy investment, and they don't benefit local communities! OH SNAP datasociety.net/library/data...
Data Centers Aren’t the Future of American Prosperity
Tamara Kneese and Maia Woluchem cut through lobbying points and speculative myths to focus on what the evidence reveals about the tech industry’s claims.
datasociety.net
July 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@tamigraph.bsky.social and I get to some mythbusting today about data centers and the supposed future they bring. Long story short: 😬
Today Trump, Sen. McCormick, and industry leaders convened to discuss their plan for AI-forward PA. Upshot: $92 billion will go to data centers, natural gas & nuclear infrastructure, & re-organizing labor around the AI race. DoE Sec. Chris Wright declared: “AI is our second Manhattan Project.”
July 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Today Trump, Sen. McCormick, and industry leaders convened to discuss their plan for AI-forward PA. Upshot: $92 billion will go to data centers, natural gas & nuclear infrastructure, & re-organizing labor around the AI race. DoE Sec. Chris Wright declared: “AI is our second Manhattan Project.”
Proud of this labor of love and how full circle this process was - beginning as a grateful workshop participant and ending as director of this incredible team. Offering up precious ideas from around the globe on what trust means, with or without the tech that mediates it today. Read here!
📣 Just published! Our new anthology reframes the question of trust and technology away from whether a particular technology is trustworthy and toward how trust shapes institutions, bodies, and knowledge. 1/5 datasociety.net/library/trus...
June 12, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Proud of this labor of love and how full circle this process was - beginning as a grateful workshop participant and ending as director of this incredible team. Offering up precious ideas from around the globe on what trust means, with or without the tech that mediates it today. Read here!
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JOIN me, @xriskology.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social for @datasociety.bsky.social 's
#PredatoryData event discussion of the 21st C #eugenicsInBigTech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online tomorrow Thur 4/10 at 1P EasternUS time! datasociety.net/events/resis...
#PredatoryData event discussion of the 21st C #eugenicsInBigTech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online tomorrow Thur 4/10 at 1P EasternUS time! datasociety.net/events/resis...
April 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
JOIN me, @xriskology.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social for @datasociety.bsky.social 's
#PredatoryData event discussion of the 21st C #eugenicsInBigTech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online tomorrow Thur 4/10 at 1P EasternUS time! datasociety.net/events/resis...
#PredatoryData event discussion of the 21st C #eugenicsInBigTech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online tomorrow Thur 4/10 at 1P EasternUS time! datasociety.net/events/resis...
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Over 100 researchers are issuing a statement today that reiterates the scientific consensus that AI can exacerbate bias and discrimination.
The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
March 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Over 100 researchers are issuing a statement today that reiterates the scientific consensus that AI can exacerbate bias and discrimination.
The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
Trustworthy Infrastructures is hiring! Come work with @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi, and me, as we look to build out our Nodes & Conduits project. We're really looking forward to getting to know you and your work - please don't hesitate to reach out with any additional questions!
Job alert: We’re hiring a post-doc research fellow to work with our Trustworthy Infrastructures program on a project exploring how post-industrial communities adapt to socioeconomic transformations driven by the tech industry. Learn more & apply by April 18! job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Trustworthy Infrastructures
New York, NY
job-boards.greenhouse.io
March 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Trustworthy Infrastructures is hiring! Come work with @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi, and me, as we look to build out our Nodes & Conduits project. We're really looking forward to getting to know you and your work - please don't hesitate to reach out with any additional questions!
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April 10 @ 1pm ET: Join "Predatory Data" author @anitachan.bsky.social, @xriskology.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social, & @mwoluchem.bsky.social for a discussion of the 21st century eugenics revival in big tech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online! datasociety.net/events/resis...
March 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
April 10 @ 1pm ET: Join "Predatory Data" author @anitachan.bsky.social, @xriskology.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social, & @mwoluchem.bsky.social for a discussion of the 21st century eugenics revival in big tech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online! datasociety.net/events/resis...
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Lots of things coming up this spring! We're so excited to have @drniajohnson.bsky.social, Ekene Ijeoma, and @followlori.bsky.social in to talk through community confrontations around infrastructure. Registration link below!
March 20 @ 3pm ET: Join us for this public panel — part of our Connective (t)Issues workshop — as we break down confrontations between tech infrastructures & local communities w @drniajohnson.bsky.social, Ekene Ijeoma, @followlori.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social datasociety.net/events/conne...
February 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Lots of things coming up this spring! We're so excited to have @drniajohnson.bsky.social, Ekene Ijeoma, and @followlori.bsky.social in to talk through community confrontations around infrastructure. Registration link below!
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The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...
us06web.zoom.us
February 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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It turns out the NY doc indicted for telemedicine abortion care in LA was once MY doctor. Hands down the best I have ever had - I broke down in tears on my 1st visit because I had never received care like that & didn't even know it was possible
Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate
Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate
Donate | The ACT Group
Donate and help us make a difference in access to telemedicine for all
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February 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It turns out the NY doc indicted for telemedicine abortion care in LA was once MY doctor. Hands down the best I have ever had - I broke down in tears on my 1st visit because I had never received care like that & didn't even know it was possible
Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate
Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate
A week after the election, our team took a road trip through Pennsylvania to talk to folks about AI infrastructure taking over their towns. We stopped at Amazon data centers, abandoned electrical plants, Three Mile Island, ate at many hometown diners, and Bethlehem Steel, among many others 1/
A beautiful dispatch by D&S’s @livgar.bsky.social, @mwoluchem.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi about their recent research road trip through Pennsylvania, tracing the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present — and uncertain future. datasociety.net/points/digit...
February 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A week after the election, our team took a road trip through Pennsylvania to talk to folks about AI infrastructure taking over their towns. We stopped at Amazon data centers, abandoned electrical plants, Three Mile Island, ate at many hometown diners, and Bethlehem Steel, among many others 1/
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📣 New CFP! On May 8 and 9, we’re hosting an online workshop on the intersection of generative AI technologies and work. Learn more about what we’re looking for and apply by February 7. datasociety.net/announcement...
January 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
📣 New CFP! On May 8 and 9, we’re hosting an online workshop on the intersection of generative AI technologies and work. Learn more about what we’re looking for and apply by February 7. datasociety.net/announcement...
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Thrilled to announce the @datasociety.bsky.social Generative AI & Labor Primer by Aiha Nguyen & Alexandra Mateescu. It covers how GenAI impacts many forms of work, the human labor behind GenAI & AI's impact on worker control & surveillance. A labor/tech must-read! datasociety.net/library/gene...
Generative AI <p>and Labor
This new primer shows that understanding how AI will affect work requires examining how work is organized, how industries are structured, and whose and what work is valued.
datasociety.net
December 4, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Thrilled to announce the @datasociety.bsky.social Generative AI & Labor Primer by Aiha Nguyen & Alexandra Mateescu. It covers how GenAI impacts many forms of work, the human labor behind GenAI & AI's impact on worker control & surveillance. A labor/tech must-read! datasociety.net/library/gene...
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In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, D&S Policy Director Brian Chen writes about Trump's plans to militarize technology: “To conjoin Silicon Valley profits with the war machine, Trump now inherits a national security base that gets the last word on tech policy.” www.techpolicy.press/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley’s Embrace of National Security Will be All-Encompassing Under Trump | TechPolicy.Press
Data & Society policy director Brian Chen writes that President-elect Trump will inherit a techno-security architecture primed to militarize new technologies.
www.techpolicy.press
November 22, 2024 at 4:19 PM
In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, D&S Policy Director Brian Chen writes about Trump's plans to militarize technology: “To conjoin Silicon Valley profits with the war machine, Trump now inherits a national security base that gets the last word on tech policy.” www.techpolicy.press/silicon-vall...
I'm so thrilled to announce that Connective (t)Issues is finally here - a workshop on the manifold ways digital, physical, and social infrastructures are mythologized, built, broken, and reconstructed. We're looking for stories in any medium, and can't wait to read, watch, and listen to yours!
Connective (t)Issues
Join us to reflect, critique, and imagine the manifold ways that digital, physical, and social infrastructures are built, broken, reconstructed, and mythologized.
datasociety.net
November 21, 2024 at 1:17 PM
I'm so thrilled to announce that Connective (t)Issues is finally here - a workshop on the manifold ways digital, physical, and social infrastructures are mythologized, built, broken, and reconstructed. We're looking for stories in any medium, and can't wait to read, watch, and listen to yours!