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Data Labor and the Labor Force behind AI: A Conversation with Hanlin Li and Toby Li

    Join us for a CHIWORK conversation on January 19, 2023 at 11am EST . Click here: Download Calendar Invite

    2022 witnessed perhaps the greatest progress in artificial intelligence (AI) development to date, from the release of Dall-E 2 to the beta testing of ChatGPT. These AI advances are possible thanks to millions of data producers, from artists to writers to programmers, contributing training data. Data producers like you and me are the crucial but often overlooked labor force behind many of the glamorous AI models that are currently grabbing news headlines and winning praise. In this discussion, I will highlight issues related to consent, monetization, and power in the extraction of data labor. I will also discuss what policies and design interventions could help to make AI development more consent-driven and equitable. 

    Speaker: Hanlin Li

    Postdoc, UC Berkeley

    Hanlin Li (https://www.hanlinli.com/) is a postdoc scholar at UC Berkeley and an incoming assistant professor at UT Austin. Her research sits at the intersection of data governance and HCI. She examines the societal and economic impact of data generated by the public, from rating data to social media comments. Her research aims to inform policy and design interventions to incentivize responsible data collection and use. Li publishes in ICWSM, ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and ACM FAccT. Her work has won an award at ICWSM and has been featured in national and international media, such as the NY Times, the MIT Technology Review, and Bloomberg.

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