Exploring Resistance and Other Oppositional Responses to AI

This workshop will gather researchers and practitioners who study, and/or engage in, opposition to the proliferation of AI technologies. It will do so based on an inclusive conceptualization of what counts as AI, thereby assembling a diverse collection of participants and perspectives. The organizers will especially solicit submissions that respond to a variety of specific themes: resistance in organizational contexts; understandings of community-based collective resistance; research around non-voluntary adoption; considerations around distributions of power in the creation and use of AI; implications for designing technologies to support opposition, and the possibility of resistance indirectly reifying current conceptions of AI. Prospective participants will be invited to submit descriptions of their work either studying or engaging in oppositional practices, as well as a challenge they have faced in doing so. The workshop will involve a series of interactive, hands-on activities to enable participants to share both challenges and strategies. In addition to catalyzing connections among researchers, the workshop will also produce two concrete outputs: a living annotated bibliography of relevant citations across diverse domains, and a practical guide with context-sensitive tactics for challenging the perceived inevitability of AI.