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Non-profit organisation. Critical AI literacy - critical thinking about AI and better narratives about AI for public power. Powered by volunteers Our websites: BetterImagesofAI.org WeandAI.org

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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The official launch event for The AI Resist List is finally here, and you can join in person or online! The airesistlist.org has met a seemingly urgent public need for examples of ways communities around the world are moving against extractive AI and exploring more equitable technology futures.
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The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Calling all those who are interested in policing, technology, racial justice, and education! On 8th July, as part of London Data Week, Grace Davis from BLAM UK blamuk.org is delivering a workshop exploring how AI-driven policing and surveillance technologies shape everyday life in the UK.
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BLAM UK CIC
We aim to promote a positive dialogue of social identity and culture through history
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Join us for a full day programme of reimagining and reclaiming AI at London Data Week 2026 on the 8th of July at King's College London Book here: lnkd.in/ekj3dbQ5
Poster for the London Data Week 2026 event “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 
8th July 2026. Includes organiser logos from We and AI, Better Images of AI and The AI Resist List, and partner logos King's College London Digital Futures Institute, Design Informatics, Our AI Collective CIC, Kairoi, BLAM UK CIC, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network. A hand-illustrated collage graphic represents optimistic people power in a green flourishing landscape.
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Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 16/06/2026
The AI Resist List is LIVE 🎉 Co-built w/ @weandai.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social, & @refugeelab.ca, this database highlights global efforts to challenge AI, showing how we can resist, refuse, reimagine, and reclaim from Big Tech's dominance. airesistlist.org
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Call for Papers: Topical Collection on AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation and Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices 📚
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Introducing: The AI Resist List - airesistlist.org Our latest collaboration that illuminates the ways that people, communities, and organisations are pushing back against extractive AI development and deployment around the world.
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AI Resist List
AI Resist List website
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
The gorgeous AI Resist List homepage
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'm so honored to have been a part of a brilliant group of collaborators: @taniaduarte.bsky.social & her team at @weandai.bsky.social; @dylnbkr.bsky.social, @paulinewee.bsky.social, & Yemariam Mamo at @dairinstitute.bsky.social; @petramolnar.com & her team at Refugee Law Lab; and others.
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Storyclare she/her @storyclare.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Had an amazing conversation yesterday with this org plus AI Youth and @inbitspodcast.com about the phase we are in right now. It's worth looking at the metaphors that young people are using around "ai" and how best to reframe this narrative
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New on the Better Images of AI blog: The Mystical Art of Making Maths Sparkle: A Wizard’s Guide to Statistical Sorcery by Berk Alkoç (he/him) 👉🏽 You can read the blog post here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/the-mystical...
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The Mystical Art of Making Maths Sparkle: A Wizard's Guide to Statistical Sorcery - Better Images of AI Blog
Berk Alkoç traces the emergence of this visual metaphor and unpacks the implications of using sparkles to represent AI. In his own 5 steps of statistical sorcery, Berk criticises the corporate narrati...
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JemimaG @jemimag.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If you don't sit 100% comfortably with using AI chatbots, @weandai.bsky.social has published a practical paper on AI chatbot harms - useful for any critical assessment: zenodo.org/records/1830...
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A broad taxonomy of AI chatbot harms caused to individual users
AI chatbots have been integrated into many aspects of daily life, often with little discussion or acknowledgement of the possible harms that this technology may cause. In this paper, we conduct a narr...
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Can you help us find a part-time freelance research / project assistant to help us get set up for a huge year for We and AI projects?* Details of the role are here: lnkd.in/e7Pi-qHh
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Freelance Research Assistant and Project Manager (Remote, UK) - We and AI
This role would suit an organised and resourceful postgraduate or freelance researcher who has experience in working in public engagement, science communications and/or using digital platforms. It cou...
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In the latest post on the Better Images of AI blog, Laura Sofía Martínez Agudelo chatted to Julieta Longo about her image 'Digitalisation and Moonlighting’, awarded runner-up in the Digital Dialogues competition, run earlier this year with the Digit Centre. blog.betterimagesofai.org/behind-the-i...
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Behind the Image: Digitalisation and Moonlighting - Better Images of AI Blog
In this blog post, Laura Martinez Agudelo (volunteer steward) chatted to Julieta Longo (artist) behind the series of images ‘Digitalisation and Moonlighting’ that were awarded as a runner-up in the Di...
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Gloria Medoza's image, ‘The Environmental Impact of Data Centres in Vulnerable Ecosystems’ is one of our newest additions in the Better Images of AI library. Download Gloria's image to use for free, under a CC BY 4.0 license, so long as you correctly attribute: betterimagesofai.org/images?artis...
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Better Images of AI
We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our latest post on Better Images of AI's blog is about our new collection of images in the library from Lone Thomasky and Bits & Bäume which expose the realities behind the often perceived “clean”, “slick”, and “efficient” AI supply chains. Read more here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/visualising-...
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Visualising the Supply Chain of AI: Lone Thomasky and Bits & Bäume’s Image Collection – Better Images of AI Blog
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We all use metaphors when describing, engaging with or understanding AI. But should we think critically about this? What might the effects be? Why does it matter? Our most recently published blog post, written by Cinzia Pusceddu, explores the debate around this topic: aihub.org/2025/11/17/r...
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Review of “Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives and perception” - ΑΙhub
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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions: Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions Online @hypestudies.bsky.social 10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST hypestudies.org/conference/c...
Exploring metaphors of AI: 
Visualisations, narratives and perception

Hype Studies Conference (Barcelona) and ONLINE
10th September 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST (UTC +2)
Online registration at hypestudies.org

Join an exploration of insightful research and art as explorations on how AI hype narratives derive power from metaphors. Featuring presentations, discussion and Q&A including:

Myra Cheng - Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors
Leo Lau  - New visual metaphors of AI
Tania Duarte - Better Images of AI (moderator)
Anuj Gupta and Yasser Atef - ChatGPT metaphors for developing critical AI literacies 
Rainer Rehak - AI narrative breakdowns of power and promise
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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A fantastic #FAccT2025 edition of the excellent Computer Says Maybe podcast - including me on @weandai.bsky.social workshops about material & sociotechnical concepts of AI for marginalised communities Also really great chats from other sessions @facct.bsky.social - www.themaybe.org/podcast/afte...
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The Maybe
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Are you at #FAccT25 this morning and interested in, or working on resisting, reclaiming, refusing or reimagining AI? If so, we’d love to see you at: “Challenging Narratives of AI Inevitability - Show and Tell” at the back of the inside cafe: 10.15 coffee break today
Countering Narrative of Inevitably- Show and Tell flyer
10.15 - 10.45 am Weds 25th Junes details on #facct-social-25 Slack
Hello@weandai.orgRepeat of the flyer picture with the back of the flyer shown. It has a lot of text which is a bit too small to read easily
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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I’m at #FACCT25 for @weandai.bsky.social and @betterimagesofai.bsky.social to -run a sensory workshop on marginalised people & sociotechnical AI concepts -convene a social on Challenging Narratives of AI Inevitability -learn from some amazing work! And I made a list bsky.app/profile/did:...
Flyer for countering narratives of inevitability show and tell -10.15 to 10.45 am weds 25th June Details on #facct-social-25 hello@weandai.orgFlyer for We and AI organisation “Critical AI Literacies for Public Power” using images from the Better Images of AI library hello@weandai.org www.weandai.orgAI planet board game - mat with cards, one of the games for the workshop Tania Duarte and Lizzie Remfrey in front of the Consertoire conference venue with FACTT sign
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📣📣There are just a few days left to enter our ‘digital transformation at work’ art competition with @digitcentre.bsky.social! Meet the fantastic judging panel looking forward to seeing how budding and activist artists reinvent the scifi-inspired ways digital and work are represented in images👇🏽 1/4
 A poster announcing the judges for an open competition for artists and makers to create images illustrating the realities of digital transformations at work. 10 judges are listed with a circular headshot and their names underneath. A text box on the poster states that there are monetary prizes, global entries, and all creative fields are welcomed. 
‘Digital Transformation at Work’ Art Competition
DEADLINE TO ENTER: 18th May 2025
JUDGING PANEL
Bhumika Billa
Chanell Daniels
Jacqueline O’Reilly
Maninder Paul
Tania Duarte
Rob Keery
Niels Bonde
Nina Wakeford
Michael Luck
Ben Wodeki
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
At the beginning of 2025, We and AI reached a milestone of FIVE YEARS as a voluntary organisation. Our desire to support a greater diversity of people to make decisions about AI - through having better understanding of how AI technologies impact their values and interests - has not changed.
We and AI 5th Birthday Celebration
It’s been a wild ride! Join us to celebrate our amazing community, look back at our amazing projects, and join small groups to discuss where the (AI) world is 5 years on.
ONLINE | March - 19 - 2025 | 5pm - 7pm UTC | RSVP hello@weandai.org
Poster Illustrated by a collage of images form the Better Images of AI library - betterimagesofai.org. For full attribution and usage see https://bit.ly/image_credits
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
As part of our new blog series, 'Through My Eyes', Laura Sofía Martínez Agudelo shares her reflections on 'Weaving Wires 1' – Hanna Barakat, OLY's 'better image of AI' that was created for the Archival Images of AI playbook. 👉🏽 Read Laura's blog post here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/weaved-wires...
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'Weaved Wires Weaving Me' by Laura Martinez Agudelo - Better Images of AI Blog
Laura comments on how the image uncovers the hidden Navajo women's labor behind the assembly of microchips in Silicon Valley – inviting us to confront the oppressive cultural conditions of conception,...
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