In and against AI capitalism

In honour of Vincent Mosco’s critical intellectual legacy of dual analysis of capitalist innovation and the forces that contest it, this article examines struggles in and against AI capitalism. We sketch nine arenas of conflict: existential-risk activism; collective bargaining; copyright battles; data-poisoning and sabotage; data centre revolts; resistance to autonomous weapons; anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian mobilisations; counter-narratives puncturing the ‘AI sublime’; and issues of policy and ‘counter-governance’. This activity, which we characterise as an emergent cycle of anti-AI struggles, is fractured and its impact and trajectory remain uncertain. Yet tracking this resistance is an ongoing critical task, one that continues into the AI era the praxis Mosco so energetically championed.