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The Manifesto on “Algorithmic Sabotage” is accessible via the following link: https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/manifesto-on-algorithmic_sabotage/. It is presented in its original English version, along with 11 other translations for readers who are not native English speakers ..

“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”[1] — Alan Turing

“When you’re fundraising, it’s Artificial Intelligence. When you’re hiring, it’s Machine Learning. When you’re implementing, it’s logistic regression.”[2] — Joe Davidson

While #AI produces thoughtlessness, in the sense that political philosopher Hannah Arendt meant when interpreting the actions of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann[3]; the inability to critique instructions, the lack of reflection on consequences, a commitment to the belief that a correct ordering is being carried out, “Algorithmic Sabotage” is intensified by the new forms of machinic knowing and the nascent becoming of an anti-worker and anti-community computational complex, making necessary a restructuring that reorients the focus from the miasma of AI and its concomitant toxic algorithmic operations of optimisation to developing techniques for redistributing social power, starting from a feminist standpoint and progress towards the implementation of prefigurative strategies of resistance, agency and refusal, to inhibit, slow down or reverse the emergence of harmful racialized practices of exteriorization and exclusion driven by algorithms.

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[1] Hodges, A. (2013) Alan Turing, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/.

[2] Joe Davison, “No, Machine Learning is not just glorified Statistics”, Medium, June 27, 2018. Available at: https://towardsdatascience.com/no-machine-learning-is-not-just-glorified-statistics-26d3952234e3.

[3] Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. 1 edition. New York, N.Y: Penguin Classics, 2006.

TECHNOPOLITICS OF FRONTS · A preliminary version of an intertwined feedback loop outlining the concept of “Technopolitics of Fronts”, a broad intervention based on an action-oriented commitment to mutual constitutive solidarity and the application of feminist and decolonial methodologies to reclaim collective subjectivity and political agency in the context of necropolitical technologies that reinforce structural injustice, algorithmic states of exception, eugenic solutionism and bureaucratic cruelty.

⟶ https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/technopolitics-of-fronts/