Author: Lucas Lichner
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When people contest AI, institutions have a playbook to get out of it
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Published in Long readsThe recently launched AI Resist List marks an important milestone. By documenting instances of resistance to harmful AI systems and practices around the world, it makes one thing clear: people are actively challenging how AI is built and deployed, in courtrooms, workplaces, and neighbourhoods, from Japan to Congo to Brazil. But documenting resistance raises an equally important question: what happens after people push back? Steering AI toward futures that people actually want depends not only on whether resistance emerges, but also on how the organizations developing and deploying these systems respond. If we want to strengthen future efforts to contest…