Author: Dylan Baker

Three reflections on AI and Democracy from the AI Resist List

1 October 2026

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Dylan Baker, Tania Duarte, Marion Meyers and Theo Moreman

Published in Long reads

The development and deployment of large-scale generative AI has been a massively undemocratic enterprise. But there are many resisting the pull, and in May 2026 we started the AI Resist List to document them. A journalistic endeavor led by Karen Hao and AI researchers, journalists, and critical scholars, we came together through a shared desire to tell the underreported stories of how people are refusing to accept that better futures are not possible. We called it a “Resist List” because we believe that resistance is inherently generative. Resistance paves the way for new ideas, thoughts, and projects. Resistance is at…
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Author: Dylan Baker

Three reflections on AI and Democracy from the AI Resist List