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📢We're proud to support the upcoming launch of the Data Labelers Association of Kenya with an online event! Join us to meet the workers and support their struggle. 📅Feb 13 ⏰8pm Kenya/ 6pm EU/ 12pm ET ✅Watch and submit your questions to the speakers: twitch.tv/dair_institute

We're very exciting to host a book launch for Mirjam Müller (she/her) 's Global Sweathshops on 5 March, 4-6pm. Discussion will be chaired by Bruno Leipold with comments by Paul Apostolidis, Virginia Mantouvalou and Sarah Goff. Registration link below

DeepSeek shows alternative models of AI are possible - so long as you don't ask it about Winnie the Pooh. open.substack.com/pub/doesnotcom…

He who lives by expropriating data, dies by expropriated data. 404media.co/openai-furious…

I have written a short piece on the utility of mythologising AI by the current crop of techno-elites. I am grateful to Opinio Juris for publishing it!

great to be on PoliticsJOE to chat about our book Feeding the Machine, DeepSeek and a little bit about my new book on AI companions. youtube.com/watch?v=9w-Jjv…

🚀 Big news! The official French-subtitled preview of our documentary ‘In the Belly of AI’ is here! 🎬 📺 Full broadcast on Tuesday, February 11, at 10:40pm CET on France 2!🔥 by henri poulain Julien Goetz & moi ft. Milagros Miceli James Muldoon Dr. Émile P. Torres & many more.

How does DeepSeek's hype reflect the AI industry, national strategies, and hidden human costs? In our new DiPLab policy memo, we offer recommendations for navigating inflated claims from tech giants, unaccountable governments, and ambitious startups. diplab.eu/diplab-release…

The beta version of the High-risk EU AI Act Toolkit (HEAT) is launched today. CFI researchers worked with Accenture’s Center for Advanced AI in Italy, to create a compliance and ethics resource designed to help AI providers meet regulatory obligations. shorturl.at/wL1yd

Reminder that we’re hosting a book launch for Mirjam Müller (she/her) ’s brilliant book this afternoon!

Looking forward to joining OxDEG - Oxford Digital Ethnography Group this Monday to share my ethnographic research on local data centre resistance in the UK. Sign-up below or join IRL in Oxford ☺️

This is tomorrow if you happen to be in Barcelona.

Next week I'll be in Oxford for this workshop on Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI studies. I'll talk about Platform Dependency, how platform studies are overlooking dependency theories and the importance of Latin American dependency theories oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Looking forward to digging into this volume edited by Christoph Sorg & Future Histories...what an impressive table of contents!

Many human-AI relationships and the companies that make them possible are like a Black Mirror episode come to life. I spoke with David Batty about them recently for this article: theguardian.com/technology/202…

A new article by myself and Will Stronge, rejecting those neoliberal, up-by-your-boot-straps narratives that equate self-reliance with moral worth.

After Kenya, Meta is facing a second set of lawsuits in Africa over the psychological distress experienced by content moderators. Majorel, the company at the centre of the allegations in Ghana, is owned by the French multinational Teleperformance. theguardian.com/technology/202…

For those in Berlin, there'll be a joint event on 26 May for Vanessa Wills 's and my books, with comments from Dorothea Gädeke, Daniel James, Mirjam Müller (she/her) & Gabriel Wollner. Register with [email protected]

🎉 Thrilled to share that I’ve signed a contract with Stanford University Press for a new book on social media and emotional manipulation in the age of online hate, AI propaganda, “outrage hooks”, “fear seeding”, and “empathy bait”!

Platforms without borders. Workshop in London organized by James Muldoon, Denise Kasparian, Andrea Pollio, Lin Zhang, Marc Steinberg and myself, bringing together 25 early career researchers from around the world. Many thanks to each of you who participated in the workshop!