The official launch event for The AI Resist List is finally here, and you can join in person or online! The airesistlist.org has met a seemingly urgent public need for examples of ways communities around the world are moving against extractive AI and exploring more equitable technology futures.

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

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Calling all those who are interested in policing, technology, racial justice, and education! On 8th July, as part of London Data Week, Grace Davis from BLAM UK blamuk.org is delivering a workshop exploring how AI-driven policing and surveillance technologies shape everyday life in the UK.

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We aim to promote a positive dialogue of social identity and culture through history

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Join us for a full day programme of reimagining and reclaiming AI at London Data Week 2026 on the 8th of July at King's College London Book here: lnkd.in/ekj3dbQ5

The AI Resist List is LIVE 🎉 Co-built w/ @weandai.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social, & @refugeelab.ca, this database highlights global efforts to challenge AI, showing how we can resist, refuse, reimagine, and reclaim from Big Tech's dominance. airesistlist.org

Call for Papers: Topical Collection on AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation and Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices 📚

Introducing: The AI Resist List - airesistlist.org Our latest collaboration that illuminates the ways that people, communities, and organisations are pushing back against extractive AI development and deployment around the world.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

I'm so honored to have been a part of a brilliant group of collaborators: @taniaduarte.bsky.social & her team at @weandai.bsky.social; @dylnbkr.bsky.social, @paulinewee.bsky.social, & Yemariam Mamo at @dairinstitute.bsky.social; @petramolnar.com & her team at Refugee Law Lab; and others.

Had an amazing conversation yesterday with this org plus AI Youth and @inbitspodcast.com about the phase we are in right now. It's worth looking at the metaphors that young people are using around "ai" and how best to reframe this narrative

We and AI@weandai.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We all use metaphors when describing, engaging with or understanding AI. But should we think critically about this? What might the effects be? Why does it matter? Our most recently published blog post, written by Cinzia Pusceddu, explores the debate around this topic: aihub.org/2025/11/17/r...

New on the Better Images of AI blog: The Mystical Art of Making Maths Sparkle: A Wizard’s Guide to Statistical Sorcery by Berk Alkoç (he/him) 👉🏽 You can read the blog post here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/the-mystical...

If you don't sit 100% comfortably with using AI chatbots, @weandai.bsky.social has published a practical paper on AI chatbot harms - useful for any critical assessment: zenodo.org/records/1830...

Can you help us find a part-time freelance research / project assistant to help us get set up for a huge year for We and AI projects?* Details of the role are here: lnkd.in/e7Pi-qHh

In the latest post on the Better Images of AI blog, Laura Sofía Martínez Agudelo chatted to Julieta Longo about her image 'Digitalisation and Moonlighting’, awarded runner-up in the Digital Dialogues competition, run earlier this year with the Digit Centre. blog.betterimagesofai.org/behind-the-i...

Behind the Image: Digitalisation and Moonlighting - Better Images of AI Blog

In this blog post, Laura Martinez Agudelo (volunteer steward) chatted to Julieta Longo (artist) behind the series of images ‘Digitalisation and Moonlighting’ that were awarded as a runner-up in the Di...

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Gloria Medoza's image, ‘The Environmental Impact of Data Centres in Vulnerable Ecosystems’ is one of our newest additions in the Better Images of AI library. Download Gloria's image to use for free, under a CC BY 4.0 license, so long as you correctly attribute: betterimagesofai.org/images?artis...

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We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...

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Our latest post on Better Images of AI's blog is about our new collection of images in the library from Lone Thomasky and Bits & Bäume which expose the realities behind the often perceived “clean”, “slick”, and “efficient” AI supply chains. Read more here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/visualising-...

We all use metaphors when describing, engaging with or understanding AI. But should we think critically about this? What might the effects be? Why does it matter? Our most recently published blog post, written by Cinzia Pusceddu, explores the debate around this topic: aihub.org/2025/11/17/r...

Review of “Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives and perception” - ΑΙhub

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Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions: Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions Online @hypestudies.bsky.social 10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST hypestudies.org/conference/c...

A fantastic #FAccT2025 edition of the excellent Computer Says Maybe podcast - including me on @weandai.bsky.social workshops about material & sociotechnical concepts of AI for marginalised communities Also really great chats from other sessions @facct.bsky.social - www.themaybe.org/podcast/afte...

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Part 1 is live. Listen for heat, water, power, and the people refusing to disappear behind the cloud. Add your own ground-truth stories below, or tag someone who should. Extensive reading list and resources shared in the comments section of our LinkedIn post. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... 6/6

Are you at #FAccT25 this morning and interested in, or working on resisting, reclaiming, refusing or reimagining AI? If so, we’d love to see you at: “Challenging Narratives of AI Inevitability - Show and Tell” at the back of the inside cafe: 10.15 coffee break today

I’m at #FACCT25 for @weandai.bsky.social and @betterimagesofai.bsky.social to -run a sensory workshop on marginalised people & sociotechnical AI concepts -convene a social on Challenging Narratives of AI Inevitability -learn from some amazing work! And I made a list bsky.app/profile/did:...

📣📣There are just a few days left to enter our ‘digital transformation at work’ art competition with @digitcentre.bsky.social! Meet the fantastic judging panel looking forward to seeing how budding and activist artists reinvent the scifi-inspired ways digital and work are represented in images👇🏽 1/4

At the beginning of 2025, We and AI reached a milestone of FIVE YEARS as a voluntary organisation. Our desire to support a greater diversity of people to make decisions about AI - through having better understanding of how AI technologies impact their values and interests - has not changed.

As part of our new blog series, 'Through My Eyes', Laura Sofía Martínez Agudelo shares her reflections on 'Weaving Wires 1' – Hanna Barakat, OLY's 'better image of AI' that was created for the Archival Images of AI playbook. 👉🏽 Read Laura's blog post here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/weaved-wires...

'Weaved Wires Weaving Me' by Laura Martinez Agudelo - Better Images of AI Blog

Laura comments on how the image uncovers the hidden Navajo women's labor behind the assembly of microchips in Silicon Valley – inviting us to confront the oppressive cultural conditions of conception,...

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