Abolish AI Manifesto

Abolish AI argues that what is called “AI” is not a neutral technology but an oppressive social apparatus that substitutes human judgment, concentrates control, and amplifies capitalist extraction. It frames abolition as a positive political project analogous to movements against slavery, prisons, and policing: identify an institution to eradicate and build a liberatory alternative. The text insists AI’s harms are integral - environmental destruction, massive data extraction, exploitative labor for data labelers, erosion of education and mental health, and real-world dual-use violence - and therefore rejects reforms or “ethical AI.” Abolition of AI, the argument continues, is inseparable from anti-capitalist transformation and a leftward revolution against global technofascism.

The manifesto treats AI as a cultural practice of outsourcing thinking and offers concrete individual and collective responses: form supportive communities, stop delegating judgment to algorithms, re-skill away from tech crutches, replace screen habits with analogue activities, and campaign publicly. It recommends organizing demonstrations, strikes, conferences, building mutual aid and survival skills, and even direct action against instruments of power. The call is to refuse comfort as the ultimate goal, embrace discomfort to reclaim human agency, and actively construct humane alternatives rather than accommodate the expanding reach of automated systems.