Overview

• Time’s third annual list places Miceli alongside tech figures such as Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg.
• Her research foregrounds data labelers who create training sets for AI models, a workforce often paid only dollars or cents per hour in difficult conditions.
• Data Workers’ Inquiry’s first cohort included 16 community researchers from Kenya, Syria, Brazil and Germany, with participants paid €35 an hour as reported from the project’s description.
• Miceli is affiliated with the Weizenbaum-Institut in Germany, teaches at the Technical University of Berlin and leads research at the Distributed AI Research Institute.
• She shared the recognition with data workers in statements on X and referenced “cientificidio” to describe the challenges facing scientists in Argentina.