@alexhanna.bsky.social highlighted workers' power in workplaces and technologies in multiple regions and domains. The Luddite Lab Resource Hub from DAIR is going to be a worker-led space for advocacy and learning from each other's wins. More to come in 2026 about the Hub in early 2026!
Tijana Zrnic shared how platforms like LMArena could incentivize high-quality evaluation from human evaluators, and interesting cases of how the collectives responded to changes in LMArena.
@saiphcita.bsky.social shared with us the importance of data transparency for worker advocacy and collective action. This also enables the team to build culturally-aware recommendation tools for workers. Helping people understand the inner workings of technology will empower collective action.
Check out our schedule on our website: acaworkshop.github.io/schedule.html
And our livestream at neurips.cc/virtual/2025...
Coming up soon, is our keynote speaker, @saiphcita.bsky.social, who will speak gig worker collective action against algorithmic systems at 9:10AM!
We just heard from Florian Tramรจr on the potential of personalized LLM tools to combat AI attacks and from Bogdan Kulynych on leveraging adversarial tools for audits and robustness.
We are currently hearing from Joanna Redden on the history of automated tools in government services.
Happening now! Join us in Upper Level Room 4 for our workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action #NeurIPS2025
We will have stellar talks to kick off the day, followed by contributed talks and posters by authors before lunch break.
๐๏ธ New WiAIR Episode Incoming!
We're excited to welcome @mariaa.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the @colorado.edu, as our next guest on #WiAIRpodcast.
Subscribe to our Youtube and don't miss the upcoming episode: www.youtube.com/@WomeninAIRe...
#wiair #wiairpodcast
a great time today with our SIG attendees, who sketched out some lovely, hopeful alternative tech futures ๐ฎ #cscw2025
many thanks to co-organizers beatriz palacios abad, vishฤl sharma, @hanlinliii.bsky.social, and @alexandrato.bsky.social; excited for the future of this community!
Colorful illustration featuring โWikidata", showing people connecting data through pipes and devices. Text says: The open, collaborative Wikidata model is helping bridge languages, preserve information, and connect datasets across the world. Stephen Harrison, 4 August 2025
Wikidata is one of the most significant repositories of open knowledge on the planet. Read this Stephen Harrison interview that explores how this open, volunteer-driven database became the infrastructure for global knowledge โก๏ธ www.stephenharrison.com/p/how-wikida...
@elliot-creager.bsky.social @nickmvincent.bsky.social @willie-agnew.bsky.social Celestine Mendler-Dรผnner
and Ulrich Aรฏvodji.
Our topics of interest:
- Data strikes and data leverage
- Data protection poisoning
- Economic incentives in AI systems
- Mechanism design
- Participatory AI
- Community advocacy and governance
See our call for papers for more details:
acaworkshop.github.io/cfp.html
#ACAWorkshop
The image is titled Workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action. On the left are speakers, Tijana Zrnic, Incoming Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Seda Gรผrses, Associate Professor, TU Delft, lorian Tramรจr, Assistant Professor, ETH Zรผrich, Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Joanna Redden, Associate Professor, Western University, and Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University. The abstract reads: The study of โcollective actionโ has a long history in Economics and Sociology as a way for groups of people to impact markets and the political arena (Olson 1965; Marwell and Oliver 1993). Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA) is the study of such coordination strategies in algorithmically-mediated sociotechnical systems. Our workshop offers a platform to discuss new ideas and help define the foundational research directions for the emerging topic through interdisciplinary discussions between ML researchers, scholars from the social sciences, community stakeholders and advocates.
We are organizing a workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action at NeurIPS this year. As AI continues to concentrate power, we will meet in San Diego (Dec 6 or 7) for critical conversations on user coordination, labor, data protection, and community advocacy.
Submissions due August 22.
#NeurIPS2025
Image of the first page of the CHI 2025 paper titled "A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies" by authors Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, & Su Lin Blodgett
How can we better think and talk about human-like qualities attributed to language technologies like LLMs? In our #CHI2025 paper, we taxonomize how text outputs from cases of user interactions with language technologies can contribute to anthropomorphism. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 1/n
