CJEU's decision last week to refuse public access to documents on EU-funded emotion recognition at borders raises concerns. The decision cites "commercial interests", but trade secrets don't apply here and have bad consequences. Most emotion-detecting AI systems use surveillance labor outsourced to data workers in low-income countries. Global labor standards can't be enforced without transparency. https://www.article19.org/resources/eu-court-denies-full-transparency-about-emotion-recognition/ #AI #surveillance #datawork #digitallabor

Do you do data analytics or eng in the A2 area? Want to meet up and do a social over coffee? #datawork

Grand entretien dans Le Grand Continent, où je parle des recherches de notre équipe #DiPLab sur l'IA et les travailleurs de la donnée au Venezuela, en Égypte et à Madagascar—ainsi que de la violence symbolique des data scientists. En français👉
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2023/04/07/lia-potemkine-et-le-futur-du-travail-une-conversation-avec-antonio-casilli/ #intelligenceartificielle #crowdworkers #datawork #automation #futureofwork

I traveled with #DiPLab's Maxime Cornet and Clément Le Ludec to Madagascar to document and share the working conditions of those who perform #AI #datawork for French startups. This neocolonial process is further complicated by the dependence of both Madagascar and France on US big platforms.
https://theconversation.com/enquete-derriere-lia-les-travailleurs-precaires-des-pays-du-sud-201503

Important reading on #DataEthics #ML #AI from @milamiceli and Julian Posada

"Our dispositif analysis comprises the examination of 210 #DataWork instruction documents, 55 interviews with #data workers, managers, and requesters, and participant observation. Our findings show that discourses encoded in instructions reproduce and normalize the worldviews of requesters. Precarious working conditions and economic dependency alienate workers, making them obedient to instructions."

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555561

Re-imagining #ethics in computational #datawork focusing on public safety & criminality involves challenging harmful #theoriesofchange Learn more by @chels_bar about generative #refusal that helps resist the #carceralstate: https://doi.org/jd4z #SocialJusticeWork