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170 papers, essays, talks, projects, and media appearances organized by the research question they address most directly.

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36 peer-reviewed articles and talks with video or slides.

2026May 2026Public AIPaperIf open source is to win, it must go publicICML
2026May 2026Public AIPanelPanel: Designing Collective Technology GovernanceCPDP.ai 2026
2026May 2026Safety and evalsPaperOverreliance in Writing Tasks: Exploring Similarity-Based Measures of AI Influence on Writing and Proposing a Reflective Writing Interface InterventionACM FAccT
2026May 2026LLM simulationPaperMechanism Plausibility in Generative Agent-Based ModelingACM FAccT
2026May 2026Social computingPaperHow Creatives Approach GenAI Image Generation: Tensions Between Structured Guidance, Self-Experimentation, and Creative AutonomyACM Creativity & Cognition
2026Mar 2026Social computingPaperTracing Everyday AI Literacy Discussions at Scale: How Online Creative Communities Make Sense of Generative AIACM CHI
2026Feb 2026Data as laborPaperAre We Horses? Rethinking Data as LaborPhilosophy & Technology
2025Dec 2025Data leveragePaperCollective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power ConcentrationNeurIPS Position Papers
2025Dec 2025Data leveragePoster PresentationCollective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power ConcentrationNeurIPS 2025 Position Papers Track
2025Oct 2025Safety and evalsPaperAn Audit and Analysis of LLM-Assisted Health Misinformation Jailbreaks Against LLMsAIES
2025Oct 2025AI supply chainsPaperResponsible AI in the OSS: Reconciling Innovation with Risk Assessment and DisclosureAIES
2025Oct 2025LLM simulationTalkA Data Flow Perspective on "AI Social Simulation": Will Recent AI Advances Enable New Social Science, Destroy Ecosystems for Knowledge, or Something More Subdued?University of Washington CSSS Seminar
2025Jun 2025Data leveragePaperAlgorithmic Collective Action with Two CollectivesACM FAccT
2025Jun 2025Social computingPaperPush and Pull: A Framework for Measuring Attentional Agency on Digital PlatformsACM FAccT
2024Mar 2024Knowledge commonsPaperA Canary in the AI Coal Mine: American Jews May Be Disproportionately Harmed by Intellectual Property Dispossession in Large Language Model TrainingACM CHI
2024Mar 2024Public AIPaperPika: Empowering Non-Programmers to Author Executable Governance Policies in Online CommunitiesACM CHI
2024Feb 2024Public AITalkA New Grand Data Bargain for Public Interest AIDigital Democracies Institute Spring Speaker Series
2023Nov 2023Social computingPaperPeer Produced Friction: How Page Protection on Wikipedia Affects Editor Engagement and ConcentrationACM CSCW
2023Jun 2023Data as laborPaperThe Dimensions of Data Labor: A Road Map for Researchers, Activists, and Policymakers to Empower Data ProducersProceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
2022Dec 2022AI supply chainsPanelDoes the rise of AI need us to adopt new data licensing policies?Open Health Data and AI Summit 2022
2022Jun 2022AI supply chainsPaperBehavioral Use Licensing for Responsible AIACM FAccT
2021May 2021Social computingPaperCEAM: The Effectiveness of Cyclic and Ephemeral Attention Models of User Behavior on Social PlatformsAAAI ICWSM
2021May 2021Knowledge commonsTalkThe Importance of Wikipedia to Search Engines and Other SystemsWikipedia Research Showcase
2021May 2021AI supply chainsPaperAddressing Documentation Debt in Machine Learning Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpusNeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks
2021May 2021Social computingPaperAdverTiming Matters: Examining User Ad Consumption for Effective Ad Allocations on Social MediaACM CHI
2021Apr 2021Data leveragePaperCan "Conscious Data Contribution" Help Users to Exert "Data Leverage" Against Technology Companies?Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2021Apr 2021Data as laborPaperA Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to Search Engine ResultsProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2021Mar 2021Data leveragePaperData Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public in its Relationship with Technology CompaniesProceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
2021Jan 2021Data leverageTalkData Agency: Individual or Shared?RadicalxChange Panels
2020Jul 2020Data dividendsPanelData Driven Economy for AllRadicalxChange 2020 Conference
2019Nov 2019Data leveragePaperHow Do People Change Their Technology Use in Protest?: Understanding Protest UsersACM CSCW
2019Jul 2019Data as laborPaperMeasuring the Importance of User-Generated Content to Search EnginesProceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2019May 2019Data leveragePaper"Data Strikes": Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Form of Collective Action Against Technology CompaniesThe World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
2018Nov 2018Social computingPaperWomen (still) ask for less: Gender differences in hourly rate in an online labor marketplaceACM CSCW
2018Apr 2018Data as laborPaperExamining Wikipedia With a Broader Lens: Quantifying the Value of Wikipedia's Relationships with Other Large-Scale Online CommunitiesACM CHI
2018Apr 2018Knowledge commonsTalkThe Critical Relationship of Volunteer-Created Wikipedia Content to Large-Scale Online CommunitiesWikipedia Research Showcase

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134 other indexed objects: workshops, essays, projects, media, podcasts, and garden posts.

2026Jul 2026Knowledge commonsShortpostUsing AI kind of involves interacting with other peopleData Leverage Short Posts
2026Jun 2026Data as laborBlogData labeling work should be dignified, not dismissedData Leverage
2026Jun 2026Data dividendsBlogAI Dividends Without Taxing Compute, Automation, or Equity: A Presumptive Commons-Rent Tax Based on Capabilities and Data DependenceData Leverage
2026Jun 2026Safety and evalsOther paperIDP-Bench: Benchmarking ability of LLMs to protect personal information in interdependent privacy contextsarXiv preprint
2026May 2026Knowledge commonsWorkshopWikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language EditionsWikiWorkshop 2026
2026May 2026Data as laborShortpostN-gram search as posterior updating for data attributionData Leverage Short Posts
2026May 2026Safety and evalsPanelPanelist, Responsible AI TrackCanadian AI/CRV 2026
2026May 2026AI supply chainsShortpostAugmentation is a data flow problemData Leverage Short Posts
2026Apr 2026Safety and evalsBlogThe AI "Evaluation Crisis" Is an Opportunity to Get Data Flow RightData Leverage
2026Apr 2026LLM simulationWorkshopPoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for PolicyACM CHI Extended Abstracts
2026Apr 2026AI supply chainsBlogAttestation across the AI Supply ChainData Leverage
2026Apr 2026Public AIBlog"People First" Policy Ideas that Complement Each Other (through better data flow)Data Leverage
2026Apr 2026Knowledge commonsBlogAI is driving the cost of polish down; some musings on fancy versus terse artifactsData Leverage
2026Mar 2026Data leveragePanelPanel: Can Decentralists Cooperate? Rethinking Commons and Collective Action in the Age of Platforms and AIATScience 2026
2026Mar 2026AI supply chainsProjectData Counterfactuals
2026Mar 2026AI supply chainsBlogTwo natural allies of a "Data Transparency" agenda: capabilities forecasters and social simulatorsData Leverage
2026Mar 2026Data leveragePodcastCollective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data LeverageThe Blockchain Socialist
2026Mar 2026Data leverageBlogA Short Guide to Data Strikes and Conscious Data Contribution in the Context of 2026 Frontier AIData Leverage
2026Feb 2026Knowledge commonsBlogThe Paradox of Reuse in 2026: A Case of Quasi-Enclosure, or "Subsidized Club Goods that Sort of Look Like Public Goods"Data Leverage
2026Feb 2026Data as laborMediaNew Research Challenges Tech Giants to Recognize Users as Laborers, Not ByproductsCarnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
2026Jan 2026Data as laborBlogThe Coding Agent Data DealData Leverage
2026Jan 2026Data as laborBlogCoding agents are (1) a big deal, (2) very relevant to data leverage, and (3) able to help build tools that support data leverage!Data Leverage
20262026AI supply chainsProjectData Lava Lamp
2025Dec 2025Data leverageWorkshopEmpowering Users Together: Connecting Algorithmic Collective Action and Explainable AIAlgorithmic Collective Action Workshop at NeurIPS 2025
2025Dec 2025Data leverageWorkshop OrganizerCo-organizer, NeurIPS Workshop on Algorithmic Collective ActionNeurIPS Workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action
2025Nov 2025AI supply chainsBlogAlmost Everybody -- Including Both Data Creators and AI Companies -- Stands to Benefit from Clearer "Data Rules".Data Leverage
2025Nov 2025Safety and evalsOther paperBenchmarks 101NeurIPS 2025 Education Program
2025Oct 2025Data leverageWorkshopSync or Sink: Bounds on Algorithmic Collective Action with Noise and Multiple GroupsAlgorithmic Collective Action Workshop at NeurIPS 2025
2025Oct 2025Data leverageBlogHow collective bargaining for information, public AI, and HCI research all fit togetherData Leverage
2025Oct 2025Safety and evalsOther paperOpen WebUI: An Open, Extensible, and Usable Interface for AI InteractionarXiv preprint
2025Sep 2025AI supply chainsBlogWhich datasets should we assume are "in all the AI models"?Data Leverage
2025Sep 2025AI supply chainsProjectDataLicenses.org
2025Sep 2025Public AIMediaShould the public sector build its own AI?The Financial Times
2025Aug 2025Safety and evalsTalkData Leverage and AI SafetySingapore AI Safety Hub
2025Jul 2025Public AITalkData and Public AITPC25
2025Jul 2025Safety and evalsMediaAI as 'teammate'? Not so fast, say experts warning it could be 'dangerous'Canadian HR Reporter
2025Jun 2025Public AIPodcastAI as a Public Good with Jake Hirsch-Allen and Nicholas VincentBrainTrainr Podcast
2025Jun 2025Data leverageBlogAlgorithmic Collective Action With Two Collectives [crosspost]Data Leverage
2025Jun 2025Data leverageBlogOn AI-driven Job Apocalypses and Collective Bargaining for InformationData Leverage
2025Jun 2025Knowledge commonsWorkshopEpistemic Authority in AI Fact-Checking: A Human and Data Centric Perspective4S 2025 Conference: Reverberations
2025May 2025Safety and evalsBlogHow do we know our AI output is good? Double checks, bar charts, vibes, and training data.Data Leverage
2025May 2025Knowledge commonsShortpostAI progress as quasi-public good productionData Leverage Short Posts
2025May 2025Data as laborBlogEach Instance of "AI Utility" Stems from Some Human Act(s) of Information Recording and RankingData Leverage
2025May 2025Social computingBlogGoogle and TikTok rank bundles of information; ChatGPT ranks grains.Data Leverage
2025May 2025Knowledge commonsMediaCan Wikipedia survive the rise of AI and the age of Donald Trump?Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2025May 2025Safety and evalsMedia‘Trial and error’: Over half of AI redundancies a mistake, say leadersCanadian HR Reporter
2025Apr 2025Safety and evalsWorkshopStep-By-Step Reasoning with Meta Cognitive Prompts to Reduce Contextual HallucinationHEAL Workshop @ CHI 2025
2025Apr 2025Data dividendsBlog[microblog] One book is worth "0.06%" benchmark points to AI; is "no different from noise". What gives?Data Leverage
2025Apr 2025AI supply chainsMediaInside Meta's secret experiments that improve its AI modelsBusiness Insider
2025Apr 2025Public AIWorkshopCanada as a Champion for Public AI: Data, Compute and Open Source Infrastructure for Economic Growth and Inclusive Innovationauthor preprint
2025Apr 2025Public AIBlogPublic AI, Data Appraisal, and Data DebatesData Leverage
2025Mar 2025Public AITalkCanada as Champion for Public AIMcMaster Internet Policy Lab
2025Mar 2025Public AITalkEmerging Concerns with the Generative AI Data Paradigm (and how academic research and “Public AI” can help)UBC NLP
2025Mar 2025Data leverageTalkActivism in the Age of AIIATSE 891 AI Day of Learning @ Downtown Vancouver
2025Mar 2025Public AIOther paperAI for Just Work: Constructing Diverse Imaginations of AI beyond "Replacing Humans"arXiv preprint
2025Mar 2025Data leverageBlogEvaluation Data Leverage: Advances like "Deep Research" Highlight a Looming Opportunity for Bargaining PowerData Leverage
2025Feb 2025Knowledge commonsBlogTipping Points for Content EcosystemsData Leverage
2025Jan 2025AI supply chainsBlogAI Labs Should Open Source Data Protection TechnologiesData Leverage
2025Jan 2025AI supply chainsMediaOpenAI is reaping what it sowed with DeepSeek. What's that old saying about karma?Business Insider
2025Jan 2025AI supply chainsBlogLive by the free-content-for-training sword, die by the free-content-for-training swordData Leverage
2025Jan 2025AI supply chainsWorkshopResponsible AI in Open Ecosystems: Reconciling Innovation with Risk Assessment and DisclosureAAAI 2025 Workshop on AIGOV
2024Dec 2024AI supply chainsBlogSelling AGI like AG1: Will Consumers Push Back Against Proprietary Blends of Herbs and of Data?Data Leverage
2024Nov 2024Data as laborBlogPerplexity CEO's Interaction with Striking New York Times Workers Does Not Reflect Well on the AI IndustryData Leverage
2024Sep 2024Data leverageBlogIs Zuckerberg right to say that your specific creative work has no value to AI?Data Leverage
2024Sep 2024AI supply chainsTalkHuman-Centered AI Research and New Paradigms for Generative AI DataHuman-Centered AI Conference @ Pepperdine University
2024Aug 2024AI supply chainsOther paperA step forward in tracing and documenting dataset provenanceNature Machine Intelligence, News & Views
2024Aug 2024Safety and evalsBlog"Many Models" and "Track Changes" for AI: Some Thoughts on LLM InterfacesData Leverage
2024Jun 2024AI supply chainsMediaIs data supply AI’s Achilles’ heel?UBS
2024May 2024Data as laborTalkEconomic Concentration and Dispossessive Data Use: Can HCI Solve Challenges from and to AI?SIGCHI 2024 Outstanding Dissertation Award
2024May 2024Safety and evalsWorkshopDesigning an open-source LLM interface and social platforms for collectively driven LLM evaluation and auditingHEAL Workshop @ CHI 2024
2024May 2024Safety and evalsWorkshopThe Need for Flexible Interfaces for Text-to-Image Auditing: A Case Study of DALL·E 2 and DALL·E 3GenAICHI @ CHI 2024
2024Apr 2024Social computingMediaIs this AI? See if you can spot the technology in your everyday lifeThe Washington Post
2024Mar 2024AI supply chainsMediaJews have always been prolific writers. Has AI wound up with too much of their work?Jewish Telegraphic Agency
2024Mar 2024AI supply chainsMediaNicholas Vincent explains why robots.txt is no longer enough to protect against web scrapingIT Brew
2024Feb 2024Data leverageWritingProject Spotlight: CollectiveVoiceMetagov News
2024Feb 2024Data as laborWritingWhere Biden’s AI policies fall short in protecting workers.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
2024Jan 2024Safety and evalsPanelResponsive LLM DevelopmentUniversity of Toronto Data Sciences Institute: Fairness - ChatGPT Workshop
2024Jan 2024Knowledge commonsMediaAI is killing the grand bargain at the heart of the web. 'We're in a different world.'Business Insider
20242024Data dividendsProjectData Napkin Math
2023Nov 2023Public AIWorkshopAn Alternative to Regulation: The Case for Public AIRegML 2023 Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023
2023Nov 2023AI supply chainsBlogBuilding a Data Pipeworks for Democratic AI: From Human Knowledge to Records to AI SystemsData Leverage
2023Nov 2023Data dividendsWorkshopSharing the Winnings of AI with Data Dividends: Challenges with 'Meritocratic' Data ValuationEAAMO 2023 Poster Track
2023Oct 2023Data dividendsMediaNewspapers want payment for articles used to power ChatGPTThe Washington Post
2023Oct 2023Knowledge commonsWorkshopEpistemic Injustice in Online Communities: Unpacking the Values of Knowledge Creation and Curation within CSCW ApplicationsWorkshop at CSCW
2023Oct 2023AI supply chainsWorkshopCan Licensing Mitigate the Negative Implications of Commercial Web Scraping?Workshop at CSCW 2023
2023Oct 2023Data leverageWritingHow creatives can stop AI from stealing their work.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
2023Sep 2023Data leverageBlogWill the New York Times Data Strike Have a Large Impact on ChatGPT?Data Leverage
2023Aug 2023Data as laborMedia'Data leverage' and the Harry Potter test: How much is a single book worth to a giant AI model?Business Insider
2023Aug 2023Data leverageBlogA Harbinger of the Future of Content? The New York Times Starts a Data StrikeData Leverage
2023Jul 2023Knowledge commonsMediaWikipedia’s Moment of TruthNew York Times Magazine
2023Jul 2023Data as laborWritingA roadmap toward empowering the labor force behind AI.Montreal AI Ethics Institute Research Summaries
2023Jun 2023Data as laborMediaWe are all AI’s free data workersMIT Technology Review
2023May 2023Data leverageBlogThe WGA Strike is a Canary in the Coal Mine for AI Labor ConcernsData Leverage
2023May 2023Data leverageBlogReddit, StackOverflow, and Europe: All Trending Towards Data DignityData Leverage
2023Apr 2023Data leverageBlogData Leverage Recap: December 2022 - April 2023Data Leverage
2023Mar 2023Data dividendsBlogBing Rewards for the AI AgeData Leverage
2023Mar 2023Social computingOther paperRetracted Articles about COVID-19 Vaccines Enable Vaccine Misinformation on TwitterarXiv preprint
2023Mar 2023AI supply chainsTalkCommunity Dialogue on Accountable Governance and DataCommunity Data Science Collective Community Dialogues
2023Mar 2023AI supply chainsBlogPlural AI Data AlignmentData Leverage
2023Feb 2023AI supply chainsTalkHuman-centered data and language models -- Privacy, data as labor, and licensingStanford Social NLP Reading Group Talks
2023Feb 2023Data leverageBlogAI Technologies are System Maps, and You are a CartographerData Leverage
2023Jan 2023Safety and evalsTalkAlgorithmic ContestabilityCenter for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence, Toward a Safety Science of AI
2023Jan 2023Data leverageWritingChatGPT Stole Your Work. So What Are You Going to Do?Wired
2022Dec 2022Data leverageBlogAI Artist or AI Art Thief? Innovation, Public Mandates, and the Case for Talking in Terms of LeverageData Leverage
2022Dec 2022Data as laborBlogChatGPT is Awesome and Scary: You Deserve Credit for the Good Parts (and Might Help Fix the Bad Parts)Data Leverage
2022Dec 2022Knowledge commonsBlogThe Paradox of Reuse, Language Models EditionData Leverage
2022Nov 2022Data as laborWorkshopEthical Tensions, Norms, and Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer WorkWorkshop at CSCW
2022Nov 2022Data as laborWorkshopMisleading Tweets and Helpful Notes: Investigating Data Labor by Twitter Birdwatch UsersACM CSCW Posters
2022Oct 2022Data dividendsWorkshopCollaborative Design of Contribution Tracking Systems for Decentralized OrganizationsCESC 2022
2022Apr 2022Data leverageMediaInternet users are 'poisoning' their personal data in the fight against online surveillanceLe Monde
2022Mar 2022Social computingOther paperOnline Engagement with Retracted Articles: Who, When, and How?arXiv preprint
2021Nov 2021AI supply chainsOther paperPreview of "Data and its (dis)contents: A survey of dataset development and use in machine learning research"Patterns
2021Nov 2021Data dividendsPodcastShould Tech Companies Be Paying Us for Our Data?Things Have Changed Podcast
2021Oct 2021Data dividendsOther paperFrom My Data to Our DataBook chapter in The Future of Building Wealth
2021Jul 2021Data leverageWritingApple Now Lets You Opt-Out of Tracking: Will This Give You More Influence Over Tech Companies?Technically Social
2021Jul 2021Data as laborWritingGitHub Copilot and the Exploitation of "Data Labor": A Wake-Up Call for the Tech IndustryPSA Computing Blog
2021Jun 2021Social computingMediaGot the same name as a serial killer? Google might think you’re the same personVox
2021May 2021Data dividendsMediaFacebook and Others Should Pay Us for Our Data. Here’s One WayBloomberg
2021May 2021Data leverageTalkPublic interest technologies for the ML age3rd Obfuscation Workshop
2021May 2021Data dividendsOther paperA Data Dividend that Works: Steps Toward Building an Equitable Data EconomyBerggruen Institute white paper
2021May 2021Data dividendsPodcastOn Data DividendsRadicalxChange Podcast
2021Apr 2021Data leverageWritingPowerful Technologies and Their Power Laws: Estimating Machine Learning Systems' Data Leverage VulnerabilitiesObservable Notebook
2021Mar 2021Data leverageMediaHow to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil youMIT Technology Review
2021Mar 2021Data as laborWritingWhy You're an Expert Language Model TrainerPSA Computing Blog
2021Mar 2021Data leverageWritingWhat if we could check Big Tech?: The collective voice of millions of users could be as effective as regulationNorthwestern Now
2021Feb 2021Data leverageMediaYour data is a weapon that can help change corporate behaviorFortune
2020Sep 2020Data as laborWritingDon't give OpenAI all the credit for GPT-3: You might have helped create the latest 'astonishing' advance in AI tooPSA Computing Blog
2020Sep 2020Data as laborBlogDon’t give OpenAI all the credit for GPT-3: You might have helped create the latest “astonishing” advance in AI tooData Leverage
2020Sep 2020Data leverageWriting"Data Strikes": A New Form of Leverage for Tech Users?Data Dividend Project Blog
2020Jul 2020Data leverageMediaIs it time for Netflix subscribers to go on strike?Quartz
2019Nov 2019Data dividendsOther paperMapping the Potential and Pitfalls of 'Data Dividends' as a Means of Sharing the Profits of Artificial Intelligence.arXiv preprint
2018Mar 2018Knowledge commonsMediaYouTube May Add to the Burdens of Humble WikipediaNew York Times
2015Nov 2015Safety and evalsWorkshopDeep learning of tissue fate features in acute ischemic strokeBIBM 2015 Workshop on Biomedical Visual Search and Deep Learning
2015Nov 2015Safety and evalsWorkshopDetection of hyperperfusion on arterial spin labeling using deep learningBIBM 2015 Workshop on Biomedical Visual Search and Deep Learning