Cooperative AI?

Faculty Associate Trebor Scholz and Stefano Tortorici ask whether AI can be wielded as tools of solidarity and collective power, despite the technology's extant environmental tolls and militarization. In their report for the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy, they argue that "the struggle over AI must move beyond ethical guidelines and fairness principles to a fundamental reckoning with its ownership and governance," outlining the demands that AI cooperatives must fulfill.