In this essay written for The New York Times, Timnit reflects on her reasons for wanting to build technology, and how it contrasts with the tech industry’s militaristic goals. Referencing one of our Possible Futures pieces, An Internet for our Elders, Timnit writes: “After Google fired me, I founded my own institute where I could finally ask questions like ‘What would an internet that served my elders look like?’”

This CBS 60 Minutes documentary features some of the exploited data workers fueling AI, including researchers like Fasica, whose heart wrenching report you can read on our Data Workers’ Inquiry repository. Find more works by our co-researchers and watch recordings of their talks on the Data Workers’ Inquiry website.

Congratulations to Adio for his research publication, Trapped in the Matrix: Algorithmic Control and Worker Dispossession in the African Platform Economy, appearing in the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society.