A new cycle of struggles waged within and against AI capitalism is emerging. Its movements and flashpoints include existential-risk activism; workplace organizing; copyright battles; data-poisoning and sabotage; data-centre revolts; opposition to autonomous weapons; anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian mobilizations; hype-puncturing counter-narratives; and issues of alternative regulation and governance. Such activism is fractured between reactionary and progressive opposition to AI, and across abolitionist and appropriative positions, and its impact and trajectory remain uncertain. Nevertheless, unfolding alongside and linked to movements against social inequality and ecological destruction, resistances to AI capitalism are now an important manifestation of collective counterpower against the ruling order.
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario, is author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism (Chicago: University of Illinois, 1999) and Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex (London: Pluto Press, 2015);, co-author of Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Pluto 2019), and, most recently, with Alessandra Mularoni, of Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis (Verso, 2025).
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