Launch of the AI Resist List: Community forum for Possible Futures

Some say that AI - run by a small group of billionaires and consuming an unfathomable amount of data, land, energy, labour, and water - is inevitable. But the recent release of the AIResistList.org shows how people around the world are proving that alternative futures are possible. And that communities are finding many creative ways to push back against extractive AI. This UK launch of the AI Resist List brings together researchers and scholars who documented the featured projects and those leading them, alongside people in London working on their own projects or wanting to find out more. We invite participants to join the forum with short lighting talks followed by questions for each other, aimed at sharing challenges, knowledge, ideas, tactics, hope and community. The list is not exhaustive and these are far from the only projects which centre human agency, and reimagine AI. So we will consider where we go from here, what role Londoners as representatives of a global city can learn from and contribute to nourishing visions of the future that work for all of us.

The event will also be livestreamed through a zoom webinar. If you wish to register to participate online, please fill in this form and you will receive the zoom link a few days ahead of the event. Part of the programme “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 8th July.