Aida Ponce Del Castillo

#WomensDay. Honoured to be included in the 2022 list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ @WomeninAIEthics. I'm excited to work with #AIchangemakers women who, like me, strive for more justice in our societies. Looking after worker's rights, my personal focus. #AI #AIA #AIAct

2/🤖 ‘Artificial intelligence: labour and society’ gathers in one volume the work of 20+ researchers and academics to give an insightful overview of AI in society and various perspectives (global, environmental, technological, legal and labour).

Thanks to @ETUI_org’s @APonceETUI for inviting @industriAll_EU to inspiring event on negotiating #AI practices - big challenges, but also opportunities 4 trade unions ahead! Our #AI strategy is in the making @industriAll_EU 🤓👩🏻‍💻

🤖 Contrary to the dominant narrative about General-Purpose #AI models, they are not ‘autonomous’ nor do they have real ‘agency’ 🧑‍💼 Human #labour in fact plays a central role in every phase of their development, often under precarious conditions - an important fact to remember on World Day for Decent Work #WDDW24 ✊ As the @EU_Commission moves to develop the first #GPAI Code of Practice, with actionable guidelines for industry, our new 📑 policy brief by @APonceETUI calls for stronger political action to address the hidden human and environmental costs of #GenerativeAI Read it here 🔗 etui.org/Z85

Building AI literacy in trade unions! #AILiteracy

🙌 The ETUI team out in force at our annual away day to discuss our 5⃣ priorities in our upcoming work programme: 1⃣ Empowerment of #TradeUnions 2⃣ A new socio-ecological contract 3⃣ A fair deal for #workers 4⃣ Democracy reinforced 5⃣ Capacity building for trade unions 👋 Big welcome too to our new General Director @AndrewWattEU! Take a look at our work and activities here 🔗 etui.org

Join us in February 2025 to discuss the pas, present and future of automated labour #automatedwork #automatedlabour

Water, water, water 💧💧💧💧💧 We urgently need data about impact on water and long term consequences

Amazon, Meta & Google are set to become major energy consumers with their AI ambitions, raising concerns about their net zero pledges. They influence key updates to pollution disclosure rules, fund research and lobby the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. on.ft.com/4dnKNlJ

Civil society organizations are well-positioned to provide input to the AI Office consultation on trustworthy @GPAI models and in the drafting of Codes of Practice under the AI Act digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/ai-act…

Interesting new technique to check AI outputs: A 2nd model is trained to detect whether the answers are correct or not. Having the 2 models engage in a back and forth encouraged one model to be more forthright and transparent with its reasoning wired.com/story/openai-s…

Interesting new AI safety technique to check whether an AI output correct. And human oversight? Any role for it? wired.com/story/openai-s…

🚨We need international legal framework to regulate #artificalintelligence to ✔️protect worker's jobs & rights ✔️give a key role to collective bargaining & social dialogue ✔️G20 & G7 can play important role in adopting regulation says TUAC's Veronica Nilsson at #L20 🇧🇷

TAO-The Independents, the @EU_Commission's trade union, hosted recently in Brussels a presentation of the book ‘Artificial intelligence: labour and society’. Raúl Trujillo (right), president of TAO, welcomed the editor @APonceETUI (middle) and co-author @grnsurveillance. 1/🤖

3/🤖 Among the points @APonceETUI advocated: the precautionary principle should be part of the conversation, including the AI act! We need more human controls and we (staff and unions) need to be involved early on in the implementation of AI in our organisation.

Sustainable artificial intelligence? Senior @ETUI_org researcher Aída Ponce Del Castillo on the environmental footprint of #AI and #sustainability etui.org/news/toward-su…

2nd day of our @ETUI_org training course on strategic foresight 👁️ Engaged participants from many EU countries and great trainers. Today we focused on building future scenarios and working with critical uncertainties @ValericadD @boeckler_de Michael Bergmann Alexandra Latocha

@CarissaVeliz @madhumita29 Great work! And so many other examples in many other professions and sectors. Teachers, nurses, service workers, etc

On the labour behind the AIs, by @madhumita29 . "Displaced Syrian doctors train medical software that helps diagnose prostate cancer in Britain. Out-of-work college graduates in recession-hit Venezuela categorize fashion products" Read her book #AIEthics lithub.com/how-vulnerable…

Legal interpretation of automated decision-making and monitoring systems. Platform Work Directive and beyond 🔽

@APonceETUI @ETUI_org @boeckler_de @ValericadD I am a big fan of the scenario method. Greetings to my colleague Michael Stollt @ZukunftMB

Doing #foresight!! Trade unions doing foresight at the @ETUI_org training course in Brugge 🔎Making future scenarios on the impact of a more digitized world of work with Michael Stollt @boeckler_de and @ValericadD