The technology companies that host large volumes of data and mediate everyday communications are the same ones that provide infrastructure to armies, fund mass surveillance systems and develop artificial intelligence to optimize remote bombing. In today’s wars, military AI decides targets, predicts threats and automates violence. The tech giants - Amazon, Google, Microsoft - have signed defense contracts worth billions of dollars. And now these tech facilities have become war targets, a sign that the global movement is beginning to recognize that technological infrastructure is also war infrastructure
At May First we want to think collectively about this scenario and its implications for those of us who build autonomous technologies in the service of social movements. How do we sustain emancipatory digital tools when the ecosystem in which we operate finances repression? To open the dialogue we will be joined by Tadamun Antimili Collective and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance.