Milagros Miceli

Milagros Miceli is a scholar focused on artificial intelligence and society research, currently serving as a doctoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin and Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft. Her work centers on data work, social computing, and critical data studies, with specific interest in how classification practices in AI training data shape societal power structures. Miceli was named one of TIME100's most influential people in AI and actively participates in advocacy projects for data workers' rights, exposing exploitation in data labor underpinning artificial intelligence. As a first-generation college graduate, her personal background profoundly shapes her research perspective on labor, community, and social justice.

• 2020 – Present·Technische Universität Berlin·Doctoral Researcher
  • Investigating the interaction of artificial intelligence and society, with a focus on data work and its social implications.
• 2020 – Present·Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft·Researcher
  • Leading data worker survey projects, analyzing labor exploitation in global AI supply chains.

• 2018–2020·Humboldt University·Master's Degree
  • Studied social sciences, focusing on fairness and power dynamics within artificial intelligence.
• Undergraduate Year Unknown·Institution Unknown
  • First-generation college graduate, raised in a working-class family.