Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র
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Information Retrieval Researcher 🇵🇸🍉✊🏽🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him
Montréal, Québec
Joined February 2009
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RT @EnglerYves: 400 marched through downtown Montreal today to demand an immediate arms embargo against an apartheid state seeking to starv….
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RT @UnderdogGeek: Last week, I wrote a blog post about AI, automation, and labor. A short summary 🧵. 1/.
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In the grand debate about AI and its implication for society, a particularly important concern that justifiably receives a lot of attention is the likely impact of AI on workers.A lot has been...
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My interview with @arsteinhorn from Hard Reset where I talk about my reasons for leaving big tech, AI ethics, and how Satyajit Ray's “Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne” can inspire us to build more socially responsible technology.
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RT @loomdoop: The only product Silicon Valley produces is big returns for early investors, on basically anything, or nothing. With enough….
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RT @william_fitz: Today Hard Reset published an interview with @UnderdogGeek, former AI researcher at Microsoft where he explains that "AI….
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RT @srahmanidashti: 📣 Excited to share that our recent papers have been accepted to #CIKM2025!. [1] Towards Understanding Bias in Synthetic….
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RT @TEKnologyy: This year's TREC Tip of the Tongue track will be amazing! Based on our rigorous experiments on synthetic ToT query generati….
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Hello TREC-ToTers! 👋🏽. Please note that the deadline for run submissions this year is **Aug 27**. Please spread the word! 🙏🏽.
Important announcement: All run submissions for the TREC'25 Tip-of-the-Tongue (TREC-ToT) Track are due by **August 27th**. The run submission form is now open. Please submit your runs before the deadline. More information: #TREC2025 #TRECToT #TREC2025ToT.
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Thank you for reading till the end! 🙏🏽. You can find the full blog post here: /End.
bhaskar-mitra.github.io
In the grand debate about AI and its implication for society, a particularly important concern that justifiably receives a lot of attention is the likely impact of AI on workers.A lot has been...
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This work is difficult. It requires reconciling collective risks with individual circumstances. We must resist Big Tech's attempts at prying open the cracks in our solidarity to claim AI-shaming is ableist or classist. /14
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This work must be grounded in movement building and our emancipatory praxis. 13/
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To resist, we must both radically reimagine our possible futures and learn from movements from our past. 12/
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And, the environmental impacts of global data center expansion for AI are also being felt disproportionately by already marginalized and vulnerable working class communities. 11/
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Beyond the commodification and appropriation of labor, AI is also providing political cover for ongoing dismantling of social services globally. 10/
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AI models do not just appropriate our labor, but also our identities. 9/
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Who gets to benefit from “AI”? And who is delegated to the role of providing data labor? The answers mirror racial capitalism and coloniality, and reinforce the global north and south divide. 8/
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