Milagros Miceli

Milagros Miceli leads the research group ‘Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics’ at Weizenbaum Institut and is a research fellow at the DAIR Institute. She is a sociologist and computer scientist investigating how ground-truth data for machine learning is produced. Her research focuses on labor conditions and power dynamics in data work. Since 2018, she has continuously engaged with communities of data workers globally. In 2025, she was among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI.


Session

04-11
16:30
15min
Fighting for Labor Rights in AI Data Work
Camilla Salim Wagner, Milagros Miceli

AI companies, platforms and outsourcing firms mobilize a global and precarious workforce to prepare, annotate and moderate datasets for AI. Against pervasive labor rights violations, this talk mobilizes insights from research, asking: How can existing labor rights frameworks be mobilized to bring about change? And where is new regulation needed?

Labour
Seminar room 7