Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Summary
Argues that AI is not neutral. Its methods of statistical optimization, classification, and exclusion amplify austerity, precarity, and authoritarian politics, and could be used by fascist or authoritarian regimes. McQuillan rejects ethics frameworks and regulation as insufficient. He calls for an anti-fascist approach rooted in feminist and decolonial politics, mutual aid, and solidarity, organized through people’s councils and workers’ councils.
Why it’s useful here
- Makes the same argument as Griziotti’s “technofascism” in a book-length, English-language form.
- Proposes governance forms. People’s and workers’ councils are institutions that IAD can analyze and that a community could set up to decide whether and how to adopt AI.
- Links AI critique to care and mutual aid, connecting the
aiandlabor-carethreads.
Key ideas
- AI as a political technology that operationalizes exclusion
- Skepticism of AI ethics and regulation as solutions
- People’s councils / workers’ councils as counter-power
- Feminist and decolonial approaches; mutual aid and solidarity
Related
- griziotti-2026-how-to-survive-artificial-intelligence.md
- bender-hanna-2025-ai-con.md
- ostrom-walker-gardner-1992-covenants-with-and-without-a-sword.md