Casilli

Quand il s’agit d’IA, le catastrophisme est une branche du marketing.

The guru of the AI apocalypse Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity

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.

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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.

Forbes Amazon layoffs

Bosses always call themselves AI when they’re ready for layoffs.

L’IA prospère pendant que des vies sont sacrifiées | Enquête L'IA nous fascine pendant que des millions de travailleurs sont sacrifiés pour alimenter ses algorithmes.

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.

Mediapart alerte

« Je ne veux ni le synonyme ni le terme équivalent. »

AI and the Great Digital Labor Convergence | Antonio A. Casilli

[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...

Faculty says UC releasing personal information to federal investigators The association is requesting transparency around the release of personal information that was reportedly shared with the federal government.

The UC system and individual campuses have been capitulating to the feds. The only ones holding the line are faculty.

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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

Italian Tech Resistance locandina

In the Belly of AI locandina

Il nostro documentario “In the Belly of AI” continua il suo tour dei festival italiani. Dopo Bologna (INDL-8), Modena (finalista DIG Awards), Piacenza (Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo), appuntamento il 1 ottobre alle 21.00, a Torino per il controfestival Italian Tech Resistance.

Is the #PlatformWorkDirective a blunt tool for women? Together with Eva Kocher @cillas.bsky.social, I show how ignoring gendered experiences in care & platform work risks leaving protection gaps. New in European Labour Law Journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

DiPLab seminar welcomes Tim Christiaens, Francesca Ciulli and Ivana Vranjes for this academic year kick off session (Fri. 26 September 2025, 3:00 PM CET)

Dernièrement, trop de discussions sur le "bien-être de l'IA" (si vous le suivez vous savez ce que j'en pense🤮).
Pour contrecarrer ce délire, venez à notre séminaire DiPLab sur le ^bien-être des travailleurs^ des plateforme de data work!
📌Paris 26.9.25, 15h
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The Rank Hypocrisy of “AI Welfare”: How Silicon Valley Wants to Grant Rights to Machines, but Not to Workers | Antonio A. Casilli It appears that we have all become the targets of a propaganda campaign lately. Not war criminal governments’ interference, nor far-right parties’ agitprop—though there is plenty of that. I’m talking ...

Le chercheur @casilli.bsky.social révèle un (autre) angle mort des chantres du «tout-à-l'IA»: on sait que nos algos ne seraient rien sans les millions de travailleurs du clic, exploités dans l'indifférence générale. Le nouveau dada de la Silicon Valley? «Pourquoi ne pas donner des droits aux algos?»

The Rank Hypocrisy of “AI Welfare”: How Silicon Valley Wants to Grant Rights to Machines, but Not to Workers | Antonio A. Casilli It appears that we have all become the targets of a propaganda campaign lately. Not war criminal governments’ interference, nor far-right parties’ agitprop—though there is plenty of that. I’m talking ...

"Comment la Silicon Valley veut accorder des droits aux machines, mais pas aux travailleurs" @casilli.bsky.social - "C'est comme si Nike voulait accorder des droits à ses baskets plutôt qu'aux travailleurs de ses ateliers clandestins !" www.casilli.fr/2025/09/15/t...

The Rank Hypocrisy of “AI Welfare”: How Silicon Valley Wants to Grant Rights to Machines, but Not to Workers | Antonio A. Casilli It appears that we have all become the targets of a propaganda campaign lately. Not war criminal governments’ interference, nor far-right parties’ agitprop—though there is plenty of that. I’m talking ...

Would you listen if Nike told you to disregard the rights of sweatshop workers and instead focus on the rights of sneakers? Then why listen to Big Tech pundits raving about ‘model welfare’ and ‘unions for AI,’ while ignoring labor welfare and crushing worker unions? www.casilli.fr/2025/09/15/t...

L’extrême droite et son mécène Pierre-Edouard Stérin s'infiltrent à l’université catholique de l’Ouest Le mécène revendiqué de l’extrême droite française finance depuis 2023 l’université catholique de l’Ouest, révèlent Disclose, La Topette et Reflets.info. Abrité derrière un discret fonds de dotation, ...

C'est une mafia, une putain de mafia, intégriste, identitaire, toxique, nauséabonde. Merci Disclose pour le taff, et puisse l'Université catholique de l'Ouest soit assumer qu'elle en est une composante ou avoir le courage de rompre avec tout cela. disclose.ngo/fr/article/l...

T’en fais pas, la mienne n’est pas une attaque ad personam. J’y tiens à préciser que je ne suis ni luddite, ni technocritique, ni partisan de la déconnexion—et j’explique pourquoi.

Moi depuis 25 ans me tape des voyages transcontinentaux à des endroits pas possibles pour analyser comment et qui fabrique les IA et renvoyer l’industrie à ses responsabilités politiques.

Les luddites sont un refouloir des thuriféraires de l’industrie. Le luddisme s’appuie sur un personnage fictif et sur une vision fantasmée de technologies toute-puissantes, qui profite en réalité aux marchands de “solutions” miracles.

Franchement Antoine, le qualificatif de luddite ne me sied point.

The Rank Hypocrisy of “AI Welfare”: How Silicon Valley Wants to Grant Rights to Machines, but Not to Workers | Antonio A. Casilli It appears that we have all become the targets of a propaganda campaign lately. Not war criminal governments’ interference, nor far-right parties’ agitprop—though there is plenty of that. I’m talking ...

Should AI unionize—or should "AI welfare" nerds just fuck off?
According to AI welfare advocates we should focus on the wellbeing of machines & nonhuman entities, while the tech companies that fund their studies blatantly disregard the humans who create said machines. www.casilli.fr/2025/09/15/t...

Reminder @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI; which explains this thinly sourced excuse of an article that relies on ONE Masters student and OpenAI's International Education Lead countered by measly words of "caution" from ONE university admin.

INDL-8 Conference (Uma Rani) This is "INDL-8 Conference (Uma Rani)" by ILO on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

📌 Mark your calendars: See you at the International Labor Organization in Geneva for INDL-9, September 9–11, 2026!

(Video of ILO senior economist Uma Rani announcing INDL-9 at our community gathered in Bologna, Italy: vimeo.com/1117788308/8...)

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Every time I think about someone saying "it's inevitable" when it comes to some tech thing, I think about Toronto stopping Google from creating a 'smart neighborhood' with their Sidewalk Labs project. A bunch of people worked very hard in their community to say absolutely not, not here.

INDL-8 Conference (Uma Rani) This is "INDL-8 Conference (Uma Rani)" by ILO on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

After 3 epic days with our community of researchers & activists in Italy, the big reveal—the 9th conference of our International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-9) will take place at the International Labour Organization! Watch the announcement from the iconic Flag Corridor.
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Charlie Kirk💨

That’s the kind of dumb shit you read when a clueless NYT journalist mistakes debating for dialectic.

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Guardian

Last month @theguardian.com did something stupid, and today they fixed it. And I’m in it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

C’est la rentrée des séminaires DiPLab. Si vous êtes à Paris, venez écouter @timchristiaens.bsky.social et ses collègue parler de leur nouvelle étude sur comment les travailleurs créent des communautés au sein des plateformes de crowdwork. C’est le vendredi 26 septembre à 15h au @iscpif.bsky.social.