Get inspired by this curated list of approaches, projects and initiatives addressing the challenges posed by Gen AI and what lies behind all the hype thrown at us from so-called Big Tech.
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Examining just a few of the threads in recent technological developments reveals a tapestry of interwoven troubles. Tools like artificial intelligence systematize pre-existing struggles in society and on the planet. In this multi-part series, you’ll find out what’s really beneath the shiny surface of technology.
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Exploring how technology can be used as both a gateway and a barrier to accessing information
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What is technology actually facilitating?
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Tracking how technology is used to supercharge monitoring and control
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Exposing how technology can exacerbate information disorder
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Witnessing how tech is used to conquer and destroy
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Uncovering the materiality of internet infrastructures
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Reckoning with the reality of rare-earth mining
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Revealing the costs of cobalt’s commodified extractivism
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Spotlighting ‘invisible’ tech laborers in factories, warehouses, and gig and click work
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Recognizing the harsh conditions that mining and e-waste workers face
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AI enhances efficiency and decision-making but also exacerbates social inequalities, reinforces biases, and threatens democracy. In our latest article, Executive Director Marek Tuszynski explores the urgent need to question who controls AI and why we need regulations that ensure transparency, accountability, and fairness while prioritizing human rights and sustainable resource use.
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In this article, I'll share some of the key lessons we've learned about navigating the complex world of digital security. I'll look at how to identify the right tools, services, resources, and organisations to protect your community, network, or organisation from cyber threats - and why this work is more important than ever.
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We need to rethink how we deal with information in the context of crises. All of us, really. We, the digital users of the digitised information world, need to get a grip on things. How we explore the world, what and who we trust, and why, in the context of crises, has gotten too far out of our hands and needs to change. We need a place to come together. We need to reinvent how we talk about and solve difficult things while respecting any fundamental differences we might come to the table or screen with.
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We are in the business of developing tools that allow us to eat our own tail, and AI is the new big mouth that we have just invented to help us with this self-consuming task incredibly effectively. In this spiral of self-consumption, everything tastes the same - it is impossible to verify sources and provenance and impossible to separate disgusting opinions from facts. It seems that fiction is much more popular than non-fiction in this reading club of self-consumers.
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Understanding the real scale and scope and consequences of the environmental crisis depends on how digital technology influences our thinking about it in terms of scale and depth and short and long term consequences, as well as what solutions we can imagine to create and deploy against all this chaos. Text by Marek Tuszynski
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Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines educator scoping sessions, research, literature review and youth input sessions, Tactical Tech identified insights and recommendations about topics, formats and facilitation methodologies crucial to creating effective Digital and Media Literacy Educational resources.
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This commissioned research report includes the main findings and recommendations regarding the latest developments in the Digital and Media Literacy Education field.
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This guide will provide some examples of how to deal with such data sets and how to work through them in order to yield interesting results and stories.
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For years, Tactical Tech has worked to understand and visualise Big Tech's impact on society. In this piece, you will be taken on a journey through the different formats, narratives and visual representations Tactical Tech has used to tell the story behind the acquisitions, mergers and investments of the Big Tech Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. Read to learn about our provocation design approach to promote digital thinking.
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This series outlines the initiation, delivery, and findings of the What the Future Wants project (so far) in the hope that other organisations, initiatives, and individuals working with young people can learn from our experience and the rich insights of all of the young people who contributed.
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In this mini-series, we explore how Tactical Tech’s first youth-centered team co-created the public education intervention What the Future Wants, which was released in Spring 2022. Here we dive into the workshops we conducted and share principles and practices that informed the co-creation process and findings from the workshops.
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