Julian Posada

Personal Website: https://posada.website/

Julián Posada is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His research explores the social and cultural dimensions of information, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between labor and the development of artificial intelligence.

His current book project, under contract with the University of California Press, delves into the dynamics between human labor and data production in the artificial intelligence industry. This project, which incorporates Latin American critical thought, highlights the experiences of workers in the region employed by digital platforms to generate machine learning data and validate algorithmic outputs. This research has received funding from the International Development Research Centre and the Just Tech Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council, with additional support from the McArthur, Ford, and Surdna foundations.

In addition to artificial intelligence, Posada’s interests include platform studies, labor studies, digital ethics and policy, social computing, and science and technology studies. As an interdisciplinary scholar, he utilizes a mix of qualitative and quantitative social and computational research methods for data collection and analysis.

Posada earned his Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Toronto. He also holds a maîtrise in the Humanities from Sorbonne University and a master’s degree in Sociology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). He has held visiting appointments at the Weizenbaum Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.