On March 26, 2025, Thomas Le Bonniec will speak on AI and labour.

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence systems—and more specifically supervised and reinforced learning methods—are heavily reliant on human labour, through data annotation tasks. The DiPLab research group has worked on identifying these workers and the tasks they complete, mapping out the production chains that materialize AI systems. Through the study of platform labour, one thing becomes clear: AI systems are heavily dependent on a planetary market of trainers, verifiers and imitators.

About the Speaker

Thomas Le Bonniec is a Sociology PhD researcher at the Institut Polytechnique under Antonio Casilli and Corinne Vercher’s supervision. Working on the recognition of AI workers by data protection regulation and digital commons. Obtained a master’s degree in sociology in 2018 at Sorbonne-Université. In 2019, helped uncover how Siri, Apple’s vocal assistant, collected users' audio recordings without their knowledge.