<nettime> There's no ethical AI without ethical data work/Milagros Miceli at John Cabot University Rome

[Donatella Della Ratta via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Hi folks
posting info about the upcoming Milagros Miceli's (DAIR) talk at John Cabot
university in Rome (Oct 24 6.30pm CEST) as I think the topic should be
inspiring for many of you within this community
Live streaming here

https://youtube.com/live/8DoMMQeRC2U?feature=share

cheers, donatella




The Communications and Media Studies Department is pleased to invite
you to* There’s
No Ethical “AI” Without Ethical Data Work *tomorrow, Tuesday, October 24th
at 6:30 PM in Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus.



Over the past decade, considerable research and industry efforts have
focused on addressing biases and minimizing personal subjectivities in data
collection, curation, classification, and labeling by data workers. In this
talk, I propose a shift of perspective to explore power imbalances inherent
in data work that significantly shape datasets and systems. This means
accounting for historical inequities, labor conditions, and epistemological
standpoints. Starting from the assumption that power imbalances are the
problem, not just bias, leads to fundamentally different research questions
and methods of inquiry. In this sense, I highlight the need for centering
labor as a fundamental dimension in the field of “AI” ethics as well as
fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and cooperation in the study of data
quality.



Speaker's bio

*Milagros Miceli* is a sociologist and computer scientist. His research
explores how ground-truth data for machine learning is produced. She
focuses on labor conditions and power dynamics in data generation and
labeling, exploring questions of meaning-making, knowledge production, and
symbolic power within machine learning data. Dr. Miceli leads the research
group “Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics“ at the Weizenbaum Institute.
She is also a researcher at the DAIR Institute, where she actively engages
communities of data workers in AI research.



This lecture is a part of the Digital Delights and Disturbances lecture
series organized by the* COM Department*
<https://www.johncabot.edu/communication-media-studies/default.aspx>.





Donatella Della Ratta
twitter @donatelladr
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