🎉 Congratulations to our own @MilagrosMiceli for being on TIME's 100 list of "innovators, leaders, & thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in" AI. Mila is recognized for her Data Workers' Inquiry, a worker led investigation of the impact of data work. 🧵

"But mainstream language technologies for non dominant languages often treat dialectical variations as statistical “noise.” In my imagined archive, dialectal differences wouldn’t be viewed as noise but as signal. Every grandparent would record stories in their own dialect [...]"

In her Possible Futures entry, Kathleen Siminyu writes about creating an oral archive of her elders' knowledge. "Dialects carry unique histories, proverbs, and ways of naming the world" she writes. 📖 Read the piece at https://t.co/EAb3AyG2CF

But striking the right balance between accuracy and accessibility when communicating is really tricky. Each engagement demands different timing, caters to different audiences, and allows different levels of depth. And I'm definitely trying to get better at it all!

I’ve always admired researchers who can communicate clearly, engagingly, and charmingly because I care deeply about producing knowledge that’s accessible and not just for the books. Our repository at Data Workers' Inquiry is a testimony of that:

And by Pedro Molina for @NatGeoEsp:

I was brilliantly interviewed by @chulkinet for @forbesargentina: https://t.co/0DETkpbM9m

I did several radio segments, social media conversations, and even a late-night show in Argentina! https://t.co/gk5t9HSvxE

I held keynotes and participated in panels, both in person and online. A recording of the keynote I held a few weeks ago at @JWI_Berlin and the panel with data workers that followed can be watched here: https://t.co/U5W3mEpEUq

These past few weeks, I’ve done a lot of public engagement, and it’s reminded me how hard science communication can be!

Her body was later found with an umbilical cord attached to her baby. In this possible futures entry, Meron imagines a future where the families of the disappeared find closure. https://t.co/CWpd5pszGQ

Today is the 12th anniversary of 369 Eritrean refugees who drowned in Lampedusa 12 years ago. As our researcher & refugee advocate @meronina wrote, one of them was 22 years old & was giving birth as she was drowning...

OpenAI won’t say what data it took to train its video generator Sora, so @kevinschaul and I tried to figure it out

MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌

"either translations of the Bible or other religious texts. These translations were done by religious organizations whose primary aim was evangelization, both in pre-colonial and post-colonial times."

Kathleen Siminyu writes: "In thinking about the task of machine translation, which entails the automatic translation of text from one language to another, most parallel data [...] that did exist was from the religious domain, ... https://t.co/u8oJE350ma

"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @AdioDinika , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” https://t.co/kToWqZHjgF

Missed our three year anniversary celebration for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? You can still find the recording at https://t.co/h50L9qiri4.

Join us now as Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender celebrate THREE years and 250,000 downloads of The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast! 🎉🎉 🎉

Thanks for your TED Talk, Mkoma — or should I say, your well-written techno-doom fable. 😅 Your narrative is built on hype, hallucination, and the erasure of labor. I don’t pay Elon to tweet, so here’s my response in a thread. Spoiler: I disagree entirely. Let’s begin. 🧵

Join us today for our Data workers assembly Day 2, where we will have a Keynote by the brilliant @MilagrosMiceli followed by a panel featuring data workers from across the globe, moderated by yours truly! Link to join the live stream: https://t.co/VnGwV7UZaS

¿Qué hay detrás de la carrera por la AGI? Un paquete de ideologías agrupadas en el acrónimo TESCREAL (transhumanismo, Extropianismo, singularitarismo, cosmismo, Racionalismo, Altruismo Efectivo y largoplacismo). Ideas de una secta a la que se le está dando el control del mundo.