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AI Must Die!

Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence

AI MUST DIE is a short zine by Myke Walton and Cam Smith that presents critical perspectives on the way that AI is talked about, governed, and owned in 2025.

AI is fucking everywhere: at work, at school, in our homes, in our phones, on our streets, in our governments, and at war. We are living through an era of extreme AI hype. In this climate, some people have gotten rich off of the stolen data and stolen labor that fuels these technologies. Others have been surveilled, oppressed, exploited, and killed. This text presents a short, practical guide to the technologies currently called “AI,” the ideologies and actors pouring gasoline on the AI dumpsterfire, and what we can do about it.
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How long will this go on? When will the hype cycle end? Is another AI winter coming? Faced with an inhumane tech industry and complicit governments it may ultimately fall to the people to invent new ways to evade, refuse, resist, sabotage or otherwise destroy AI.
Hammers up! AI Must Die!
Seize the means of computation

Read the full zine here: https://www.aimustdie.info/

The image is a zine cover with a photograph and text. The title of the book is “AI MUST DIE” in large, bold, black letters on a white background. Below the title is the subtitle “Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence” in smaller, black font.

The photograph depicts a white cone-shaped security robot in a pool of water being recovered by two secuirty officers in blue shirts while a woman in a black dress observes.

At the bottom of the cover is text reading “Incident 68: Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain” followed by “AI Incident Database (AIID)” and the URL “incidentdatabase.ai”. — The image is a zine cover with a photograph and text. The title of the book is “AI MUST DIE” in large, bold, black letters on a white background. Below the title is the subtitle “Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence” in smaller, black font. The photograph depicts a white cone-shaped security robot in a pool of water being recovered by two secuirty officers in blue shirts while a woman in a black dress observes. At the bottom of the cover is text reading “Incident 68: Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain” followed by “AI Incident Database (AIID)” and the URL “incidentdatabase.ai”.

Petra van Cronenburg

@NatureMC@mastodon.online replied · 2 days ago

@asrg Even if I laugh about the very ironic title (they clearly write that #AI is *no* existence or #intelligence that could die), this #zine is a good compilation for critical questions to ask and for thinking about #AIEthics and rules. A first starter for #activism.

#LLM #genAI #generativeAI #zines #resist #solarpunkSunday #luddites #noAI

Chip Butty and 1 other boosted

Institute of Diagram Studies

@diagram_studies@post.lurk.org · last week

🚫 🛠️ We are disapointed to report that an application for the role of "Digital Artist in Residence" at University College Cork (UCC) submitted by The Institute earlier this year has not been successful.

The project was titled "The Luddite Academy" and proposed to bring the current resurgence of luddite theory and praxis to bear on the university's digital arts and humanities departments.

We proposed to 1) Audit the university's dependence on Big Tech 2) Experiment with alternatives with students and staff, including but not limited to hosting our own (experimental) digital services and 3) Document everything so that it could outlive the residency.

While this particular application failed we will endeavour to find another home for this work in 2026.

#fail #shareyourfailures #notsuccess #luddites #kingludd

Diagram summarising all the aspects of the project proposal. the left side has the students, staff, and University College Cork, the right side is the Luddite academy. Both have arrows pointing to a middle column where they meet around the tree main activities of the project: Audit (interviews, office hours, reports/maps), Experiment (online prototypes, workshops), and Document (curated resources, publishing platform). The arrows coming out of the luddite academy towards these activities are labelled with the modes of action of the academy: produce artwork, curate, produce tools/code, teach, publish/host

Institute of Diagram Studies

@diagram_studies@post.lurk.org · last week

The project was titled "The Luddite Academy" and proposed to bring the current resurgence of luddite theory and praxis to bear on the university's digital arts and humanities departments.

While this particular application failed we will endeavour to find another home for this work in 2026.

#fail #shareyourfailures #notsuccess #luddites #kingludd

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Stefan Bohacek

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 2 months ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/115490945003829832

"As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” [...] They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/

#luddites #labor #WorkersRights

Stefan Bohacek

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 2 months ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/115490945003829832

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/

#luddites #labor #WorkersRights

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 5 months ago

…This☝️is a brilliant bit of film-making. It speaks to so much more than the Fens.

Heartily recommended. Beautifully shot by Red 7 Productions.

Wonderful, clear-eyed, eloquent voices.

Do watch it

An upholstered pad lies on a window seat with the phrase “There is no wealth but life” woven in green serif letters into its edge.

An inflatable ‘air-dancer’ clown figure with the word ‘FUN’ on it in vertically stacked yellow on red letters momentarily stands alongside the Tower of St Botolph’s church in Boston. Both stand out against an overcast almost white sky.

Adrian McEwen

@amcewen@mastodon.me.uk replied · 5 months ago

@urlyman It's an excellent film. Thanks for sharing it.

This country is far too centralised. There were glimmers that it could change when covid and remote working let folk move out of the overpriced capital, but we need the infrastructure investment to back that up and for land to be something for local communities rather than a way to extract money for the gentry.

We need to add Fen Tigers to the common parlance alongside Luddite.

#Luddites #FenTigers

Dr Pen

@DrPen@mastodon.social · 6 months ago

I am beginning to hate bigtech. Is it purposely designed to make us feel disempowered, erode any sense of control over our choices, lives? Do we buy stuff just to be manipulated by it? Its getting really mad though. I get a bad feeling.

#gemini #degoogle #luddites #maliciouscompliance

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/unless-users-take-action-android-will-let-gemini-access-third-party-apps/