📣 We're excited to co-organize a transnational data worker assembly together with @npub16yhn...g6hk & Data Workers' Inquiry on September 16-17 at [@Weizenbaum_Institut]( ) in Berlin. While the first day is closed-door, we’ll host a public event on the 17th. 👉 Program and registration: image
🎉✨ Huge congrats to our community researcher Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan for being shortlisted for the True Story Award, one of the most prestigious honors in narrative journalism! Her brilliant piece on content moderation, written for Data Workers’ Inquiry, stood out among over 1000 submissions from around the world, placing in the top 3%.
🚨 Attention Berlin! Next Monday, June 30th, I am thrilled to welcome @Alex Hanna to the [@Weizenbaum_Institut]( ) for a conversation about her book, THE AI CON (co-authored with Prof. Emily M. Bender). Don't miss it! Register here to attend:
Meta is pouring $15 billion into Scale AI for a near-controlling stake. This move puts immense power into the hands of one of the world’s largest tech giants. It is a quiet but colossal deal to secure dominance over the data pipelines behind Meta's AI ambitions.
📢NEW INQUIRY‼️ Data workers see the internet’s worst, so the rest of us don’t have to. Former content moderator and clinical psychologist, Kauna Malgwi, collaborated with DWI to design a mental health plan tailored to data workers' needs: https://data-workers.org/kauna/
📢We're proud to support the launch of the Data Labelers Association of Kenya with an online event! Join us to meet the workers and support their struggle. 📅February 13 ⏰8pm Kenya/ 6pm EU/ 12pm ET ✅Watch and submit your questions to the speakers: @npub1mmfh...2mx9 @npub1z40l...s3fq @Alex Hanna @npub1qr9l...mx8v image
📢 This Thursday, I’ll be speaking at the European Parliament alongside MEP @npub1krnx...wkxm and Prof. @npub1ymu2...almj. We’ll be joined by data workers from 🇪🇸🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇸🇸🇾 to discuss the labor behind AI and what worker-centric regulation could look like. 🎥 Watch live, 2:30pm CET: https://www.youtube.com/live/U4692ygg6l4 image