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Workers' Inquiry as a Research Methodology (WIRM)

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The methodology paper behind Data Workers' Inquiry, by Milagros Miceli, Alex Hanna, Timnit Gebru and colleagues at the Distributed AI Research Institute. It lays out a participatory framework for centering workers' own questions and epistemic authority in AI research, turning hidden and precarious labor into a site for knowledge-making and change.

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