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Against the AI Hell World: A Proposal for Self-Organized Struggle Contents The Tip of the Iceberg A Building Full of Computers A Nuclear Renaissance The Ring of Fire For a Self-Organized and Diffuse Project of Struggle Preamble Capitalism is always restructuring itself. We all know this, and it is why analyzing and creating proposals for struggle is an ongoing process, never something that can be fully concluded. So in a sense, change is the only constant: a comforting story for a world that is often disorienting. And yet, capitalism, as simultaneously an economic and technological system, goes through phases that might last more or less long and that create a sense of stability within them: the more things change, the more they stay the same (again, as we are told). In this moment, Summer 2026, it seems we are on the cusp of a new technological and economic phase. The economic and political systems have thrown their weight into developing a specific technology even more dramatically than for the expansion of the internet around the turn of the millenium. And unlike the early internet, this technology is highly centralized in the hands of billionaires, with no liberatory potential to speak of (although time has not been on the side of those who saw the internet as a force for freedom thirty years ago). And like all high technologies, it comes with a whole web of industrial, extractive, and financial projects, because, if you will allow us one more tired proverb, misery loves company. That technology is of course artificial intelligance, or AI, and we surely won’t be the first to tell you that it is poised to change everything. Ever since the first AI-powered chat bots appeared a few years ago, the models have been steadily improving and increasing the number of tasks they can perform, from making memes to piloting killer drones. But the actual uses of the technology are in some ways secondary to what’s going on behind the scenes, which is a frantic race to build as many data centres as possible, to produce the chips and electricty those centres need, to control and mine the minerals used in the chips, and, of course, to mobilize the vast sums of capital needed to do all of the above. Some people say there is a financial bubble in the AI sector right now. We hear that this is a problem and will lead to more infrastructure being produced than will be useful long term. Or we hear this is no problem because bubbles are normal and don’t typically stop the underlying technology — after all, the dot-com bubble didn’t sink the internet, and even the Panama Canal, the great grandmother of all bubbles, still ended up being built. Probably both of those things are true. But this is not a text about bubbles, because the risk is real that, regardless, AI will actually deliver on its promise, transform society, and prove all the billionaires right. There are aspects of the civilizational push for AI that are playing out the same across Canada, the US, and Europe: the same kinds of jobs are being eliminated, the same kinds of data centres are being built with the same arguments, which triggers the same kinds of resistance, and the electricity always has to come from somewhere. There is a lot anarchists and others who oppose AI can learn from each other across our contexts, and this proposal will likely have a lot in it that applies elsewhere. But, as always, we find ourselves in a specific place dealing with specific companies, data centre projects, financial interests, politicians, energy projects, infrastructure, and extractive projects. For our analysis to be grounded and our proposals to be actionable, we need to talk about the specifics of that place. And for us, that place is Southern Ontario, Canada, in the area around Toronto. The Greater Toronto Area is a huge continuous urban area with a population of about 8 million, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the US and Canada and home t...