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Senior researcher @ETUI_org & CIPP/E │🌐 new tech & labour │ #AIAct│ nano-bio-cogno │GDPR │ I also conduct foresight projects

Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪 🇪🇺
Joined October 2012
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
4 years
#WomensDay. Honoured to be included in the 2022 list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ @WomeninAIEthics. I'm excited to work with #AIchangemakers women who, like me, strive for more justice in our societies. Looking after worker's rights, my personal focus. #AI #AIA #AIAct
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@GlenKCampbell
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1 year
2/🤖 ‘Artificial intelligence: labour and society’ gathers in one volume the work of 20+ researchers and academics to give an insightful overview of AI in society and various perspectives (global, environmental, technological, legal and labour).
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@PatriciaVelicu
Patricia Velicu
11 months
Thanks to @ETUI_org’s @APonceETUI for inviting @industriAll_EU to inspiring event on negotiating #AI practices - big challenges, but also opportunities 4 trade unions ahead! Our #AI strategy is in the making @industriAll_EU 🤓👩🏻‍💻
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@ETUI_org
ETUI - European Trade Union Institute
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🤖 Contrary to the dominant narrative about General-Purpose #AI models, they are not ‘autonomous’ nor do they have real ‘agency’ 🧑‍💼 Human #labour in fact plays a central role in every phase of their development, often under precarious conditions - an important fact to remember
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
11 months
Building AI literacy in trade unions! #AILiteracy
@PatriciaVelicu
Patricia Velicu
11 months
Thanks to @ETUI_org’s @APonceETUI for inviting @industriAll_EU to inspiring event on negotiating #AI practices - big challenges, but also opportunities 4 trade unions ahead! Our #AI strategy is in the making @industriAll_EU 🤓👩🏻‍💻
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@ETUI_org
ETUI - European Trade Union Institute
1 year
🙌 The ETUI team out in force at our annual away day to discuss our 5⃣ priorities in our upcoming work programme: 1⃣ Empowerment of #TradeUnions 2⃣ A new socio-ecological contract 3⃣ A fair deal for #workers 4⃣ Democracy reinforced 5⃣ Capacity building for trade unions 👋 Big
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
Join us in February 2025 to discuss the pas, present and future of automated labour #automatedwork #automatedlabour
@ETUI_org
ETUI - European Trade Union Institute
1 year
✍️ Call for abstracts! 🤖 'Cyborg workers 2.0: The past, present and future of automated labour' 🧑‍🎓 Scholars from diverse disciplines are invited to contribute their insights and expertise on the social and environmental costs of #BigTech, particularly in relation to the role
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
Water, water, water 💧💧💧💧💧 We urgently need data about impact on water and long term consequences
@OlyaKudina
Olya Kudina
1 year
@APonceETUI And that's energy only - meanwhile, the water impact remains underdiscussed but it is staggering.
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
Amazon, Meta & Google are set to become major energy consumers with their AI ambitions, raising concerns about their net zero pledges. They influence key updates to pollution disclosure rules, fund research and lobby the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
Civil society organizations are well-positioned to provide input to the AI Office consultation on trustworthy @GPAI models and in the drafting of Codes of Practice under the AI Act https://t.co/LMK4uxtfnr
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
The European AI Office has opened a call for expression of interest to participate in the drawing-up of the first general-purpose AI Code of Practice.
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
Interesting new technique to check AI outputs: A 2nd model is trained to detect whether the answers are correct or not. Having the 2 models engage in a back and forth encouraged one model to be more forthright and transparent with its reasoning https://t.co/xEBGpGEDKR
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wired.com
The company announced a new technique to make the workings of its systems more transparent, but people familiar with OpenAI say more oversight is needed.
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
Interesting new AI safety technique to check whether an AI output correct. And human oversight? Any role for it? https://t.co/xEBGpGEDKR
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wired.com
The company announced a new technique to make the workings of its systems more transparent, but people familiar with OpenAI say more oversight is needed.
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@TUACOECD
TUAC
1 year
🚨We need international legal framework to regulate #artificalintelligence to ✔️protect worker's jobs & rights ✔️give a key role to collective bargaining & social dialogue ✔️G20 & G7 can play important role in adopting regulation says TUAC's Veronica Nilsson at #L20 🇧🇷
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@GlenKCampbell
Glen K Campbell 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🌏
1 year
TAO-The Independents, the @EU_Commission's trade union, hosted recently in Brussels a presentation of the book ‘Artificial intelligence: labour and society’. Raúl Trujillo (right), president of TAO, welcomed the editor @APonceETUI (middle) and co-author @grnsurveillance. 1/🤖
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@GlenKCampbell
Glen K Campbell 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🌏
1 year
3/🤖 Among the points @APonceETUI advocated: the precautionary principle should be part of the conversation, including the AI act! We need more human controls and we (staff and unions) need to be involved early on in the implementation of AI in our organisation.
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@3eintelligence
Willy De Backer (on @art4theark.bsky.social)
1 year
Sustainable artificial intelligence? Senior @ETUI_org researcher Aída Ponce Del Castillo on the environmental footprint of #AI and #sustainability https://t.co/9BlQYGrSMw
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
2nd day of our @ETUI_org training course on strategic foresight 👁️ Engaged participants from many EU countries and great trainers. Today we focused on building future scenarios and working with critical uncertainties @ValericadD @boeckler_de Michael Bergmann Alexandra Latocha
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
Legal interpretation of automated decision-making and monitoring systems. Platform Work Directive and beyond 🔽
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@Ni_Wer
Nils Werner
1 year
@APonceETUI @ETUI_org @boeckler_de @ValericadD I am a big fan of the scenario method. Greetings to my colleague Michael Stollt @ZukunftMB
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Aida Ponce Del Castillo
1 year
Doing #foresight!! Trade unions doing foresight at the @ETUI_org training course in Brugge 🔎Making future scenarios on the impact of a more digitized world of work with Michael Stollt @boeckler_de and @ValericadD
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@GlenKCampbell
Glen K Campbell 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🌏
1 year
3/🤖 Among the points @APonceETUI advocated: the precautionary principle should be part of the conversation, including the AI act! We need more human controls and we (staff and unions) need to be involved early on in the implementation of AI in our organisation.
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