Milagros Miceli

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Sociologist & Computer Scientist PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🌐 milamiceli.com

Three images of Milagros Miceli giving a talk in Chillan, Chile

Cover of the essay. It depicts a Black man, visibly tired and sad, holding a bleading heart that reads The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy by Michael Geoffrey Asia.

Table summarizing WIRM's phases and steps, linked to their respective challenges and tensions.

Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES2025)

Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AIResearchMilagros Miceli1, 2, 3, Adio-Adet Dinika1, Krystal Kauffman1, Camilla Salim Wagner2, 3,Laurenz Sachenbacher2, 3, Alex Hanna1, Timnit Gebru11The Distributed AI Research Institute2Weizenbaum-Institute3Technische Universit ̈at Berlinmila@dair-institute.org, adio@dair-institute.org, krystal@dair-institute.org, camilla.salim.wagner@tu-berlin.de,l.sachenbacher@tu-berlin.de, alex@dair-institute.org, timnit@dair-institute.org

Screenshot from UN's website. Press release: UN experts urge Germany to halt criminalisation of police violence against Palestinians solidarity activism

page of the German newspaper Tagesspiegel where Milagros Miceli is feature among other scientists from Berlin

Milagros Miceli at the Argentinian late-night-show "Otro Día Perdido"

Portrait of Milagros Miceli in a frame that reads TIME100/AI 2025.

Copy of the book "The AI Con: How to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want" by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna on a wooden desk

Short video of the massive pro-Palestine protest that took place in Berlin, Germany on June 21st., 2025

Krystal Kauffman, Adio Dinika and Milagros Miceli take a selfie outdoors

Screenshot of the blogpost:
How We Made Data Workers' Inquiry, by Milagros Miceli, DWI’s Principal Investigator and Project Lead.
This piece traces how Data Workers' Inquiry came to life: not as a project with clear answers, but as a messy, stubborn attempt to put research in the hands of the people living the realities researchers usually write about

Event's flyer that reads "data labelers association. Empowering people powering AI. Event Presenters, Introducing the Data Labellers Association. Eric Mwaura, Dorcas Maundu. Panelists. Upclose and Candid: Organize, Collaborate, Advocate, and Transform. Joan Kinyua, Ephantus Kanyugi, Michael Asia, Krystal Kauffman. Supported by DAIR, AINow, Turkopticon, Data Workers' Inquiry. February 13, 2025, 18h. CET / 12PM ET / 20h. Kenya. Join us on: twitch.tv/dair_institute"

Event's flyer that reads "data labelers association. Empowering people powering AI. Event Presenters, Introducing the Data Labellers Association. Eric Mwaura, Dorcas Maundu. Panelists. Upclose and Candid: Organize, Collaborate, Advocate, and Transform. Joan Kinyua, Ephantus Kanyugi, Michael Asia, Krystal Kauffman. Supported by DAIR, AINow, Turkopticon, Data Workers' Inquiry. February 13, 2025, 18h. CET / 12PM ET / 20h. Kenya. Join us on: twitch.tv/dair_institute"

Event's flyer. It reads:
The Left in the European Parliament. Save the Date. (Un)artificial Intelligence: Workers behind the machine. 21.11.24. 2:30 - 5:30 pm. Organised by MEP Leïla Chaibi. European Parliament-Brussels. Room ASP 1G2. Interpretation: FR-EN-IT-ES-DE.

Flyer for the event. Data Workers' Inquiry talk series. 11/11. data-workers.org/events.
Who else does data work? Speakers: John López (wga), Alex Minshall (Guerrilla Media Collective), Oscar Araya (Arte es Ètica), Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto), Alex Hanna (DAIR). Moderation: Milagros Miceli. English with captions.

Event's flyer: Data Workers' Inquiry Talk Series. Sept 30, 8-10:30 am PT, 11am - 12:30 pm ET, 5-6:30 pm CET.
data-workers.org/events
Data work as a career? Professionalizing content moderation in Germany.
Speakers: Anonymous, Data, Worker, Laurenz Sachenbacher, Milagros Miceli.
MOderation: Camilla Salim Wagner.
Germanwith simultaneous English interpretation

Cover or the report "Content Moderation: The Harrowing, Traumatizing Job that Leaves Many African Data Workers with Mental Health Issues and Drug Dependency" Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan, Data Workers' Inquiry

A flyer of the Launch Event for the Data Workers Inquiry. At 8 am PT / 11 am EST / 5 pm CET there is the firt panel, called "What is the Data Workers' Inquiry +Q&A". 45 minutes later the data workers will be introduces and at last panel 2 called "How to do data workers organize in the face of exploitation + Q&A" will take place at 12 pm EST. It will be held online on zoom on the 8th of July. RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/data-workers.