Over the past two years, DiPLab has been working intensively with the European Parliament to amplify the voices of those who really work to produce AI systems: data workers, crowdworkers, content moderators, and microworkers. Our mission is to ensure that invisiblized workers have a say in shaping the policies that Read more
Co-founder Paola Tubaro and research associate Myriam Raymond, presented ongoing DiPLab researches at a seminar at the GRANEM lab of the University of Angers (France). The seminar, titled “The Work Behind AI: Platforms and Globalization”, took place at the Faculty of Law, Economy, and Management as part of the Federated Read more
We are excited to announce a new job opportunity. We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the DiPLab initiative for the interdisciplinary study of online micro-work through qualitative and quantitative methods. This position is part of the VOLI project (Voices from Online Labour: Inequalities in digital earning activities across Read more
The report Microwork in Brazil, co-authored by Matheus Viana Braz, Paola Tubaro, and Antonio Casilli in partnership with the Brazilian research center LATRAPS, continues to garner significant attention, including a feature on BBC Brasil. The report sheds light on the underappreciated labor force that supports the billion-dollar AI industry in Read more
Our monthly DiPLab seminar will welcome two scholars in a double session. Diego Rivera (University of Chile/Institut Polytechnique de Paris) with a presentation entitled: Heteromating machines, gamified tasks and invisibility: early thoughts about Chilean microworkers subjectivity, and Aishik Saha (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) for a presentation entitled: Disinformation as Read more
Our monthly DiPLab seminar will welcome Tianling Yang (Weizenbaum Institute) and Ben Zefeng Zhang (University of Michigan), for a session entitled Turning Data into Assets: Labor, Infrastructure, and Policy in China’s Emerging Data Ecosystems The seminar will be held online on Wed. 24 April 2024, at 2:00 PM CET. To register, Read more
In a seminar held at the ILO’s headquarters in Geneva, economists aimed to address the problem of exposing artificial intelligence’s hidden layers. Senior Economist and INDL participant Uma Rani and research officer Rishabh Kumar Dhir shed light on the deceptive nature of AI’s expansion, and highlight the vital role played Read more
The French newspaper Libération devotes three full pages to the phenomenon of the “hired hands of automation” in low-income countries. Journalist Gurvan Kristanadjaja cites DiPLab PhD candidate Maxime Cornet and research associate Clément Le Ludec in his opening piece. Antonio Casilli is interviewed in depth about the skills and career Read more
The February issue of Dutch magazine De Ingenieur features sociologist Antonio Casilli and the importance of ‘click workers’. A sociology professor at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Casilli, alongside colleagues from the Digital Platform Labor research group, has investigated the working conditions of these hidden workers and presented the results of Read more
Maxime Cornet and Clément Le Ludec, PhD students in the DiPLab group at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, accompanied by their thesis supervisor Antonio Casilli, looked at the phenomenon of “click workers” in Madagascar. These workers are responsible for making data comprehensible to artificial intelligence (AI) models, thus contradicting the Read more