2026-04-11 –, Seminar room 7 Language: English
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?
This talk presents research findings as impulses for strategic discussions building on participative research, led by data workers from around the globe. Highlighting, on the one hand, the continuities between data work and other forms of labor and the role of previous acomplishments embodied by international labor rights conventions in fighting the deepening of exploitation. On the other hand, it disentangles specific challenges faced by data workers and relates their specific concerns and challenges to the need to fight for appropriate protections.
Camilla is a political scientist and part of the organizing team of the Data Workers’ Inquiry, where she supports community driven research into the labor that fuels AI. In partnership with data workers, her work highlights the need for decent working conditions, documenting and analyzing exploitative labor practices, and supporting grassroots organization to influence public discourse and policy.
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.