@casilli.bsky.social
🇫🇷 Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris I write books 📚 Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)📚 and documentaries 🎥In the Belly of AI (2025)🎥
Demain dans les kiosques
28.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Antonio Casilli : « Avec l’IA, Capgemini transforme son plan de licenciement en argument marketing »
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/6Lx
Oui dans l’entretien justement.
28.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Licenciements massifs justifiés par l'IA : mon interview avec Pierric Marissal vient de paraître dans L'Humanité. www.humanite.fr/social-et-ec...
27.01.2026 21:21 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Ieri sera Le Iene, popolare trasmissione di inchiesta della televisione italiana, ha mandato in onda la prima parte di un servizio di approfondimento sulle condizioni lavorative di chi addestra l’IA. Nel servizio anche la mia analisi, che condivido per raccontare questa realtà sommersa.
12.01.2026 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Egypt DiPLab report 1
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Egypt DiPLab report 4
We are kicking off 2026 with a new report! The comprehensive study "Data Work in Egypt: Who Are the Workers Behind Artificial Intelligence?" conducted by the DiPLab research collective, provides the first in-depth examination of Egyptian data workers.
diplab.eu/diplab-relea...
“Leisure has been colonized by work” says Institut polytechnique de Paris' @casilli.bsky.social
Monday’s #F24Debate looks at the future of free time in the age of technology - and asks whether we ever truly clock off.
Tune in at 7.10PM Paris Time at france24.com/en/live
Un témoignage à la première personne de Michael Geoffrey Abuyabo Asia, ancien modérateur de chats "intimes" avec des IA (« AI companions »), depuis les bidonvilles de Nairobi.
Vertigineuses questions sur le travail émotionnel et le consentement. Via @casilli.bsky.social
data-workers.org/michael/
Où @casilli.bsky.social rappelle qu'avec l'IA, le volume de micro-tâches ne diminue pas : "plus le marché de l’intelligence artificielle générative grandit, plus on a besoin de réentraîner les modèles"
www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...
yes, i can assure you this is fraudulent research
29.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 126 🔁 21 💬 8 📌 1
Sam Udotong in - 1st Co-founder & CTO at Fireflies.ai 10h • ••• We charged $100/month for an Al that was really just two guys surviving on pizza. We scaled Fireflies to a $1B valuation after 6 failures from our original crypto food delivery idea. Nothing motivates you more than the pressure of living month to month with no safety net. Before I explain how 2 broke guys validated a $1B idea, you need to understand we were couch surfing while desperately chasing our entrepreneurial dreams. An Al notetaker was our last hope after 6 ideas our friends claimed were "genius". The best way to validate your business idea is by becoming the product yourself. We told our customers there's an "Al that'll join a meeting." In reality it was just me and my co-founder calling in to the meeting sitting there silently and taking notes by hand. When customers scheduled a meeting, we'd manually dial in as "Fred from Fireflies.ai" We'd sit there silently, take detailed notes, and send them 10 minutes later. After taking notes for 100+ meetings (and falling asleep in many), we were finally able to make enough money to pay the $750/month rent for a tiny SF living room. That was the point when we said let's stop and automate everything. The best prototype was 2 guys surviving on pizza. Validation before automation saved us from our 7th failure.
Yet another prime case of Potemkin AI. I hate seeing an “AI notetaker” in a zoom call recording everything. In some cases, these notetakers were literally just a guy writing everything down. We too often see vaporous hype leading to the credulous embrace of fraudulent systems.
29.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 68 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 5
Il 20 nov al CSOA Forte Prenestino ci sarà la proiezione del documentario “In the Belly of AI” (Nel Ventre dell’Intelligenza Artificiale”, regia di Henri Poulain), basato sulle mie ricerche e di cui sono coautore. Podcast della mia intervista su Radio Onda Rossa.
www.casilli.fr/2025/11/16/p...
Antonio A. Casilli keynote at the Cooperative AI conference, Istanbul Planlama Ajansı.
XIV century mosaic at The Chora (Kariye Camii), Istanbul.
Turkish coffee break.
Cooperative AI participants.
It’s been an incredible week in Istanbul. I presented our documentary “In the Belly of AI” at the Cooperative AI conference, discussed recent DiPLab research at the TÜFRAM seminar at Marmara university, enjoyed time with old & new friends, indulged in my unabashed passion for anything Byzantine.
15.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Gneugneugneu la neutralité des IA c'est que des outils"
14.11.2025 05:21 — 👍 176 🔁 33 💬 10 📌 3
Sam Altman
If Sam Altman claimed something about a past event — say, a date or a historical episode — would you take his word for it, or would you double-check the facts elsewhere? Then why take him at his word when he talks about things that haven’t happened yet?
12.11.2025 08:40 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
12.11.2025 05:46 — 👍 219 🔁 69 💬 6 📌 6We have these huge conferences in expensive cities with titles that overshoot actual achievements by a light year or two (I don't think many of the workers at the hotel in Chicago had their work "Reimagined", for example)
10.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
En Norvège les passagers doivent monter par la porte avant du bus, mais certains passent par la porte dérobée. scandasia.com/norway-revie...
05.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
DiPLab seminar Martin tironi 21 Nov 2025, ISC-PIF, Paris, 3pm CET.
Sovereignty, justice, and sustainability meet AI infrastructures in places with long histories of political experimentation and environmental struggles—like Chile. On Nov. 21, 3pm, come to our DiPLab seminar ft. Prof. Martin Tironi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: diplab.eu/martin-tiron...
05.11.2025 10:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amazon MTurk
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon MTurk, launched on Nov 2, 2005, to pioneer “artificial artificial intelligence”: using 500,000 underpaid workers to annotate, review, imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today they’re still underpaid but there are tens of millions of them.
02.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 6 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1Quand il s’agit d’IA, le catastrophisme est une branche du marketing.
30.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Cette critique du bouquin d'Eliezer Yudkowsky, tête de pont des doomers de l'IA, met le doigt où il faut : ces Cassandre ne s'inquiètent pas des effets sociaux politiques ou économiques de la technologie ; ils sont seulement obsédés par le temps et sa fin.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
Titre Le Monde : "Elon Musk lance Grokipedia, son Wikipédia jugé biaisé idéologiquement"
Sur Grokipedia, la page dédiée au racisme accrédite des thèses issues du courant du racisme scientifique.
Allo Le Monde / l'AFP ?
À la page "racisme", il y a littéralement des thèses justifiant l'existence de races différentes et validant la théorie de différence de QI selon ces fausses races, il faut quoi pour que vous puissiez juger vous-même du biais idéologique du truc ?
Oui.
27.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Forbes Amazon layoffs
Bosses always call themselves AI when they’re ready for layoffs.
27.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Un documentaire vraiment important à propos de l'éthique de l'IA désormais disponible au Canada. Réalisé d'après les travaux de d'Antonio @casilli.bsky.social notamment. Si vous ne l'avez pas vu, à mettre dans vos signets.
27.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 38 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Mediapart alerte
« Je ne veux ni le synonyme ni le terme équivalent. »
19.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
[NEW BLOG POST] Uber letting drivers label data during downtime marks the collapse of a long fiction: gig work, content creation & data labeling were never separate. The Great Digital Labor Convergence is here—everyone now feeds the same AI machine. www.casilli.fr/2025/10/18/a...
18.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
The UC system and individual campuses have been capitulating to the feds. The only ones holding the line are faculty.
timesofsandiego.com/education/20...
My book Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation (University of Chicago Press) was named Book of the Day by the New York Public Library. Check it out—before the trumpites finds some excuse to ban it as ‘antifa’ or whatever.
NYPL Book of the Day newsletter: on.nypl.org/46tql25
