https://airesistlist.org/
*THE AI RESIST LIST *
/Actions against the empire of AI./
AI takes many forms. Like the word “transportation”, it refers to a
collection of technologies as diverse and distinctive as bicycles to
rockets. But today, one version of AI takes all the oxygen: large-scale,
generative systems that power products like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.
These systems consume an unfathomable amount of data, land, energy,
labor, and water. They are rooted in profoundly disturbing ideologies
that seek to flatten the world into a “one size fits all” abstraction
and to replace humans with machines.
We call the companies leading this form of AI development “empires
<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/>”.
Under the guise of a civilizing mission to "benefit all of humanity”,
they use large-scale AI development as cover to consolidate resources,
destroy ecosystems, centralize information, hollow out institutions, and
gain paramount economic and political power.
It doesn’t have to be this way. As AI researchers, journalists, and
critical scholars, we have built, documented, and imagined radical
alternatives that do precisely the opposite: center community, celebrate
human agency, honor local context and history, and rejuvenate the planet.
Now people around the world are mobilizing to resist the empires of AI
and to nourish visions of the future that work for all of us. Amid an
onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope.
What can I do to resist AI?
Nothing about the current trajectory of AI development is inevitable. It
was shaped by the thousands of subjective decisions of a tiny elite, and
continues its march based on the active participation and tacit consent
of people globally.
Inspired by Choose Democracy’s Resist List against authoritarianism
<https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/>, we organized the AI
resistance movements we documented based on how they pressure different
“Pillars of Support <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6JsPFdtS-k>” that
uphold and perpetuate the empires.
Our list is not meant to be comprehensive. Rather we selected a sample
of movements to show different approaches to resistance and to
illustrate how anyone can help shape the future of AI development.
*Our nine pillars*
Narrative
<https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-narrative><https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-funding>
Funding <https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-funding>
Data <https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-data>
Data Centers <https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-data-centers>
Resource Extraction <https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-resource-extraction>
Labor <https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-labor>
Adoption <https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-adoption>
Surveillance <https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-surveillance>
Policy <https://airesistlist.org/#pillar-policy-governance-or-lack-thereof>
