, which translates theoretical radicalism into tangible tactics: Conspiratorial Collaboration:
Aiming for social autonomy and opposing the "predations of hegemonic technology" through direct, hands-on intervention. Conceptualizing "Algorithmic Sabotage"
Actively disrupting systems that reinforce inequality, surveillance, and "unrestrained technosolutionism". algorithmic sabotage research group asrg
Defending the need for community-led constraints on harmful technologies. 🔍 Tactics and Frameworks ASRG's approach is characterized by "practice-led research"
The rise of ASRG aligns closely with a wider systemic shift toward digital resistance. While corporate entities and AI alignment labs focus on evaluating systems to prevent models from carrying out internal corporate "sabotage", grassroots collectives look at sabotage from the outside out. 🔍 Tactics and Frameworks ASRG's approach is characterized
: Their collaborative approach is built on the belief that mutual care and solidarity are direct counters to "computational segregation" and algorithmic precarity. Manifesto on Algorithmic Sabotage
For more information on their projects, you can explore their collaborative tools page . Manifesto on Algorithmic Sabotage For more information on
The Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group does not yet exist, but the need for it grows with every opaque model deployed in housing, justice, and healthcare. Its name is deliberately jarring: sabotage, after all, comes from the French sabot —a wooden shoe thrown into machinery to stop production. That humble act of refusal is the ancestor of all algorithmic accountability. The ASRG would take that wooden shoe and turn it into a research instrument, asking not “How fast can this machine run?” but “Who gets crushed when it does—and how do we safely make it stop?” In answering those questions, it would do nothing less than reclaim the politics of failure from the engineers of inevitability.
The ASRG operates within a broader ecosystem of resistance to surveillance and AI extraction. It has been featured in prestigious European research projects like "Figure It Out," supported by the Creative Europe program, alongside partners such as Drugo More (Croatia), Labomedia (France), and the Unfinished Foundation (Malta). These collaborations help ground the group's radical tactics within the context of transdisciplinary workshops exploring art, science, and technology.
In an era defined by the unprecedented expansion of artificial intelligence, surveillance capitalism, and automated systems of control, a clandestine yet increasingly influential collective has emerged from the margins of the digital underground. The represents a novel convergence of artistic activism, hacker ethics, and political theory, united by a singular, uncompromising goal: to actively obstruct and undermine the infrastructures that sustain contemporary AI.
At the heart of ASRG’s ideology is a radical departure from conventional technology critique. The collective rejects the passive act of debunking corporate propaganda or simply calling for ethical reform. In a detailed review of the group’s work, technologist and critic Monroe Lab notes that the tech industry's critique is often "fixated on resistance to false narratives, debunking as praxis," which traps activists in a "feedback loop of call and response". The ASRG exists to break this loop by moving from discourse to direct, disruptive action.