A Short Guide to Data Strikes and Conscious Data Contribution in the Context of 2026 Frontier AI

Can “Conscious Data Contribution” Help Users to Exert “Data Leverage” Against Technology Companies?

Tech users currently have limited ability to act on concerns regarding the negative societal impacts of large tech companies. However, recent work suggests that users can exert leverage using their role in the generation of valuable data, for instance by withholding their data contributions to intelligent technologies. We propose and evaluate a new means to exert this type of leverage against tech companies: "conscious data contribution" (CDC).

Data on AI Companies

Our database of AI company data, with data on revenue, funding, staff, and compute for many of the key players in frontier AI.

Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public in its Relationship with Technology Companies

Many powerful computing technologies rely on implicit and explicit data contributions from the public. In this paper, we synthesize emerging research that seeks to better understand and help people action this data leverage. Drawing on prior work in areas including machine learning, human-computer interaction, and fairness and accountability in computing, we present a framework for understanding data leverage that highlights new opportunities to change technology company behavior related to privacy, economic inequality, content moderation and other areas of societal concern.

Datacurve | The data engine for frontier AI

Custom data for long-horizon reasoning, software engineering, and data science.

The AI "Evaluation Crisis" Is an Opportunity to Get Data Flow Right

Why the AI evaluation crisis could force a reckoning on dataset provenance, attribution, and consent.

Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage - The Blockchain Socialist

I spoke to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University and author of the Data Leverage substack, about what it actually means that AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity’s digital labor and what we can do about it. Nick has spent years researching how data functions as a bargaining tool, […]

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI

Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word ``intelligence'' is being...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

Where Republicans and Democrats stand on AI data centers

Five charts exploring how Republicans and Democrats feel about AI data centers and what that might mean for the road ahead

March 2026 Global Dialogues Survey | Windfall Trust

Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy

An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like

Interviews with data workers in China and Australia reveal the precarious, exploitative conditions of this new branch of the gig economy.

An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like

Interviews with data workers in China and Australia reveal the precarious, exploitative conditions of this new branch of the gig economy.

Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting

How much could AI revolutionize the economy?

Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets)

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