Concurrent Session 2: AI from Below. Adoption in Worker and Movement Organizations

  • Nov 12, 2026 1:15–2:45PM

  • Room 105 (Maha Chulalongkorn Building)

First round of concurrent sessions

Format: Workshop

Speakers: Kenzo Soares Seto

“AI Policy from Below” is a participatory approach in which social movements and workers’ organizations develop their own principles and decision-making processes for adopting, adapting, or refusing AI. It centers community knowledge, data security, operational realities, and organizational values so that decisions about technology remain aligned with their missions and material conditions.

The project serves as a demand-side test of the Solidarity Stack. Moving from theory to actual adoption, it examines the practical, organizational, ideological, and political conditions that shape whether movements and worker organizations embrace, modify, or reject corporate and cooperative AI systems.

Community notes

Reporter 1: Kenzo Soares Seto
Reporter 2:

Speakers

  • Kenzo Soares Seto ICDE research fellow at The New School, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Law School

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