Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
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| author | Zheng, Kevin Huber, Linda Stark, Aaron Kim, Nathan Lameiro, Francesca Santo, Wells Lucas Chowdhary, Shreya Kim, Eugene Zhang, Justine |
| author_facet | Zheng, Kevin Huber, Linda Stark, Aaron Kim, Nathan Lameiro, Francesca Santo, Wells Lucas Chowdhary, Shreya Kim, Eugene Zhang, Justine |
| contents | In the face of increasing austerity and threats of AI-enabled labor replacement at the University of Michigan, a group of workers and students have coalesced around the project of "AI resistance" since Fall 2024. Forming a cross-departmental coalition including librarians, faculty, staff, graduate workers, and undergraduate students, we have hosted a public workshop questioning the techno-deterministic inevitability of AI use at the University and are working with other campus organizations to maintain an ongoing organizing space. This workshop submission incorporates our reflections thus far on the strategies we've employed, the challenges to collective resistance, and our role as workers in resisting AI within the University. Our aim for this work is to provide concrete inspiration for technologists, students, and staff looking to resist AI techno-solutionism within their own universities. |
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| spellingShingle | Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action Zheng, Kevin Huber, Linda Stark, Aaron Kim, Nathan Lameiro, Francesca Santo, Wells Lucas Chowdhary, Shreya Kim, Eugene Zhang, Justine Computers and Society Human-Computer Interaction K.4.3; K.4.2; I.2.0 In the face of increasing austerity and threats of AI-enabled labor replacement at the University of Michigan, a group of workers and students have coalesced around the project of "AI resistance" since Fall 2024. Forming a cross-departmental coalition including librarians, faculty, staff, graduate workers, and undergraduate students, we have hosted a public workshop questioning the techno-deterministic inevitability of AI use at the University and are working with other campus organizations to maintain an ongoing organizing space. This workshop submission incorporates our reflections thus far on the strategies we've employed, the challenges to collective resistance, and our role as workers in resisting AI within the University. Our aim for this work is to provide concrete inspiration for technologists, students, and staff looking to resist AI techno-solutionism within their own universities. |
| title | Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action |
| topic | Computers and Society Human-Computer Interaction K.4.3; K.4.2; I.2.0 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08313 |