A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.
Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
How AI is changing your mind
And here are six ways to protect yourself from a world view determined by AI.
We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life
Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.
Resistance Is Your Friend
As candles attract moths, so innovation offers attract resisters. You know this from experience. You work hard to propose something of demonstrable benefit to your clients or community and their first inclination is to resist it. Logical arguments do not change their minds. Optimists unhelpfully tell you to keep your chin up because resistance signifies you are doing something important. You start to wonder if anyone takes you seriously. Resistance is so common and intractable that it has a name: Valley of Death. Everyone wishes you good luck in getting through it alive. What is the story about resistance?
AI-powered online abuse: How AI is amplifying violence against women and what can stop it | UN Women – Headquarters
AI is turning online spaces into new frontiers of abuse. Feminist and tech experts, Laura Bates and Paola Gálvez-Callirgos, explain how it happens and how we fight back.
Meet Thaura / Your Ethical AI Companion
Big Tech fuels oppression. We fuel resistance. A free AI for a free future.
AI, Ethics, and Society — Home
I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots
People are self treating themselves and other community members in subreddits like character_ai_recovery, ChatBotAddiction, and AIAddiction.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
AI*-powered crime
See also non-consensual deepfakes: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections… * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* Index & AI Agent Index
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
The UAE is fighting AI hackers with AI of its own
AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says
FBI disrupts massive AI-powered phishing service using a million URLs
AI* and science journals (by あ) — Semble
Haotian AI : Providing Deepfake AI For Scam Bosses - Frank on Fraud
Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
Inside the AI Index: 12 Takeaways from the 2026 Report | Stanford HAI
The 2025 AI Agent Index: Documenting Technical and Safety Features of Deployed Agentic AI Systems
2025 Index — AI Agent Index
The 2025 AI Agent Index
AI Index | Stanford HAI
Why opinion on AI is so divided
