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On Monday, 21 November 2023, Panoptiwork.eu and the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology, and AI invited me to… read more [Video] Is AI Contributing to Global Inequalities? My Talk at the University of Groningen (21 Nov. 2023)

The Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS) at the University of Lisbon recently kicked off its academic year with an inagural… read more [Video] Effective Regulation and the Real Risks of AI (My Inagural Lecture for the Academic Year, University of Lisbon, 9 Nov. 2023)

The rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence owe their success to the efforts of at least 150 million individuals worldwide, assisting… read more Urgent Measures Needed to Protect Data Workers in the Age of AI (op-ed, Libération, 1 Nov. 2023)

On October 27, 2023, ORF1’s program “Matrix” on the the Austrian National Radio, featuring an excerpt from an interview with… read more [Podcast] Platform Workers in the Digital Realm: New Interview on the Austrian National Radio (ORF1, 27 Oct. 2023)

I had the pleasure to curate the two-day conference “Work in the Time of Algorithms”, as the new edition of… read more [Video] Conference on Algorithmic Workplace – Ethics, Regulation, and Autonomy – at the Fondazione Feltrinelli (Milan, Oct. 19-20, 2023)

Back in 2017, we set up the European Network on Digital Labor with a few friends. The project evolved into… read more [Video] Wrapping Up Three Great Days of Our Annual Conference INDL-6 in Berlin (Oct. 9-11, 2023)

The World Bank recently released a comprehensive report titled “Working Without Borders: Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work,” describing… read more Does the World Really Have 435 Million Online Gig Workers? (Le Monde, Sept. 15, 2023)

The rebranding of Twitter to “X” by Elon Musk has sparked conversations about the implications of this decision. I recently… read more The Empire of X: On Elon Musk’s Social Media Ambitions, Digital Labor, and AI (op-ed in Libération, Aug. 17, 2023)

In an article published by French newspaper ‘Le Monde’ titled “Les relations amicales à l’ère des réseaux sociaux” (Friendships in… read more How Digital Technologies Transformed Human Interactions (in Le Monde, Aug. 7, 2023)

In anticipation of the 2023 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, I had a chat with Austrian National Broadcasting journalist Sarah… read more [Podcast] Digital Socialism and Truth Ownership in a Time of Pervasive AI (ÖRF, Aug. 1, 2023)