Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategy | WIRED

AI activists are reassessing their strategies in response to the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, particularly as major companies like Google revise their ethical principles. The AI Now Institute's 2025 landscape report details how power is concentrating in a handful of dominant tech firms and recommends that advocacy groups connect AI issues to broader economic concerns like job security. The report highlights successful case studies of worker resistance and argues that regulatory approaches alone are insufficient without grassroots power-building — a framework directly applicable to communities organizing against data center expansion and the concentrated corporate power driving it.