The foundational document of the ASRG is its , released in May 2024. Unlike a dry academic paper, the manifesto is a ten-point incendiary call to arms, structured like a programmatic political platform. Published in English, Greek, and German, it has since been the subject of an international call for translation into other languages, including French and Basque. It is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3, ensuring its principles can be freely shared and adapted.
ASRG focuses heavily on data poisoning, which involves manipulating public datasets to break the training workflows of large artificial intelligence systems. These techniques subtly alter text, video subtitles, or images. The changes remain invisible or completely ordinary to human eyes, but they cause severe classification errors and logic failures when parsed by web scrapers and neural networks. 2. Algorithmic Tarpits
: For high-stakes systems (e.g., algorithmic trading, drone swarms), the ASRG would research and publish “sabotage recipes” that any user could deploy. These would not be exploits requiring hacking skills, but physical interventions—a specific pattern of electromagnetic interference, a particular timing of button presses—that cause the system to shut down safely. The goal is democratic redundancy: ensuring that no algorithm becomes too powerful to be interrupted by the people it governs.
: Prioritizing human connection over any system of legal or algorithmic classification. Methods and Tactics
The ASRG describes its membership as a diverse assembly of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists. Unlike the corporate-aligned "red teams" that stress-test systems for security firms, the ASRG adopts the posture of a guerilla think tank for the anti-AI resistance. The group explicitly frames its work within the context of "artistic-activist resistances" that aim to express "a different mentality, a collective 'counter-intelligence'".
The manifesto is structured around ten propositions, numbered from 0 to 9. Key themes woven throughout these propositions include:
Describing itself as an "ongoing, conspiratorial, aesthetico-political, practice-led research framework," the ASRG is not a traditional academic department nor a conventional protest movement. It is a self-identified militant research unit operating at the intersection of digital culture and information technology, dedicated to developing and disseminating what it terms "algorithmic sabotage."
The foundational document of the ASRG is its , released in May 2024. Unlike a dry academic paper, the manifesto is a ten-point incendiary call to arms, structured like a programmatic political platform. Published in English, Greek, and German, it has since been the subject of an international call for translation into other languages, including French and Basque. It is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3, ensuring its principles can be freely shared and adapted.
ASRG focuses heavily on data poisoning, which involves manipulating public datasets to break the training workflows of large artificial intelligence systems. These techniques subtly alter text, video subtitles, or images. The changes remain invisible or completely ordinary to human eyes, but they cause severe classification errors and logic failures when parsed by web scrapers and neural networks. 2. Algorithmic Tarpits
: For high-stakes systems (e.g., algorithmic trading, drone swarms), the ASRG would research and publish “sabotage recipes” that any user could deploy. These would not be exploits requiring hacking skills, but physical interventions—a specific pattern of electromagnetic interference, a particular timing of button presses—that cause the system to shut down safely. The goal is democratic redundancy: ensuring that no algorithm becomes too powerful to be interrupted by the people it governs.
: Prioritizing human connection over any system of legal or algorithmic classification. Methods and Tactics
The ASRG describes its membership as a diverse assembly of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists. Unlike the corporate-aligned "red teams" that stress-test systems for security firms, the ASRG adopts the posture of a guerilla think tank for the anti-AI resistance. The group explicitly frames its work within the context of "artistic-activist resistances" that aim to express "a different mentality, a collective 'counter-intelligence'".
The manifesto is structured around ten propositions, numbered from 0 to 9. Key themes woven throughout these propositions include:
Describing itself as an "ongoing, conspiratorial, aesthetico-political, practice-led research framework," the ASRG is not a traditional academic department nor a conventional protest movement. It is a self-identified militant research unit operating at the intersection of digital culture and information technology, dedicated to developing and disseminating what it terms "algorithmic sabotage."