airesistlist.org
Nothing about the current trajectory of AI development is inevitable. It was shaped by the thousands of subjective decisions of a tiny elite, and continues its march based on the active participation and tacit consent of people globally.
Inspired by Choose Democracy’s Resist List against authoritarianism, we organized the AI resistance movements we documented based on how they pressure different “Pillars of Support” that uphold and perpetuate the empires.
Our list is not meant to be comprehensive. Rather we selected a sample of movements to show different approaches to resistance and to illustrate how anyone can help shape the future of AI development.
meditationsincolor.com
A living archive of how artists work with color across time. Each artist profile scans publicly available works to trace dominant colors, a chromatic fingerprint, and the arc of a palette across a lifetime.256 Artists, 19,144 Works, 15 Collections.A living archive of how artists work with color across time. Each artist profile scans publicly available works to trace dominant colors, a chromatic fingerprint, and the arc of a palette across a lifetime.256 Artists, 19,144 Works, 15 Collections.
thariqs.github.io
Acme design system Generated from src/styles/tokens.ts and src/components/ — use as a portable reference when prompting.
sleek-mag.com
Vuk Ćosić looks back at the promises that once surrounded the internet and their afterlives. In conversation with Anika Meier for SLEEK, he speaks about nettime, browser art, artistic resistance, and the institutionalization of internet culture. He also reflects on the moment the community he believed in became, in his words, “an audience and a springboard for careers.” Looking at today’s debates around AI and crypto, he sees echoes of the promises that once surrounded the early internet. “We believed in some of the utopias because we wanted them to happen,” he says. “But we were also among the first to criticize them.”
michaeljctaylorphd.substack.com
Americans are often influenced by their chosen media to expect and depend on binary choices, reducing perceptions to simple black-and-white options. Instead of accepting life’s nuances, they favor straightforward decisions, complicating rational political understanding. This approach also causes them to see opposing views as wholly evil, fueling strong opposition to rivals’ proposals. Ultimately, this leads to a deeply divided society, enabling a minority to seize power for their benefit. Therefore, one should be cautious of binary choices from the start.Americans are often influenced by their chosen media to expect and depend on binary choices, reducing perceptions to simple black-and-white options. Instead of accepting life’s nuances, they favor straightforward decisions, complicating rational political understanding. This approach also causes them to see opposing views as wholly evil, fueling strong opposition to rivals’ proposals. Ultimately, this leads to a deeply divided society, enabling a minority to seize power for their benefit. Therefore, one should be cautious of binary choices from the start.
ftc.gov
The Federal Trade Commission will require Cox Media Group (CMG) and two smaller marketing firms to pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations they deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer an AI-powered service that could target localized ads based on conversations captured from consumers’ smart devices and that consumers had opted into such targeting.
documentcloud.org
. Consumers leave a data trail based on their conversations and onlinebehavior2. A.I. collects and analyzes this behavioral and voice data from 470+sources3. Processing voice data with behavioral data identifies an audience who is“ready-to-buy”4. We take this data, and align it with your products and services, to build anaudience list in a defined 10-mile radius5. This audience list is uploaded into our ad platforms to target your digitaladvertising6. Once launched, the technology automatically analyzes your site trafficand customers to fuel audience targeting on an ongoing basis
youtube.com
Welcome to Zendaya’s Dream Lab - Film written and directed by Spike Jonze.
harvarddesignmagazine.org
If you treat AI as a tool, you ask: how do I get the right answer? If you treat it as a medium, you ask: what happens if I push this?
The difference is immediate. A prompt stops being an instruction that returns a correct (or not) answer and starts being a sketch—something provisional, something you can revise, distort, overwork. The point is not to nail it on the first try. You are trying to see what these models do under pressure.
In my class, the first principle is simple: Do not take what comes back from prompts at face value. Interrogate it. Iterate on it. Stay with it longer than feels efficient.
One of the clearest examples of this came from Roy Zhang, a student in the Master of Design Studies (MDes) program who graduated in 2025, who asked what sounds like a trivial question: what happens if you ask the same thing over and over again?
He took a single image from the collection at Harvard’s Houghton Library and asked ChatGPT to generate twenty keywords describing it. Then he did it again. And again. Twenty times using the same prompt. He compared the returned lists of keywords with each successive list and found something fascinating.