The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute

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We are so excited about this resource created with @weandai.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab. Check it out and submit a resource you're excited about via airesistlist.org#join

The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
  • The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
  • Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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This is also a really helpful resource from Luddite Labs at @dairinstitute.bsky.social for countering common arguments we hear in the university: labor.dair-institute.org/primers

Luddite Lab labor.dair-institute.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • The Luddite Lab, a DAIR project, published a primer titled 'Myths About Generative AI, Productivity, and Job Displacement.'
  • The hub argues AI worker displacement is a market-strategy move by firms seeking cost savings, not evidence of AI matching job quality.
  • The resource hub grew from conversations with unionists in journalism, entertainment, and nursing industries facing automation.
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