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TechTonic Justice
@techtonicjustice.bsky.social
For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social

Launch report: www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai
It’s spooky season and something strange is in the air. Have you been denied an apartment, a job, or benefits? AI is often behind these decisions🔎 But we've uncovered some clues to help us identify AI. Check out our latest instagram reel to learn more!🕵️ tinyurl.com/2h64vvyj
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Big Tech is building huge data centers in the South that increase energy prices and exacerbate environmental harms. We are attending @mediajustice.bsky.social LIVE launch of their new Report + Toolkit to hear from frontline advocates and how we can fight back!
Register HERE: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth
September 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Happening one hour from now (10 am PT / 1 pm ET)! Join live to help me get the word out on the dangers of AI, especially for low-income communities. Let us know you're there with comments + questions. Two ways to join:

CXOTalk page: www.cxotalk.com/episode/ai-f...

LinkedIn event: lnkd.in/gqB5i_nN
May 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Asking folks who care about AI/tech injustice to show up for Kevin's hour-long appearance this Friday at 1 pm ET on the #CXOTalk podcast. We'll focus on the shocking scale of AI failures, particularly for low-income people.

Join the event + add it to your calendar: www.cxotalk.com/episode/ai-f...
May 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
TTJ's @kevindeliban.bsky.social will join #CXOTalk this Friday at 1 pm ET to talk about AI-related injustice, especially the harms to low-income communities.

Tune in live this Friday and share your thoughts, questions, etc. You can also add it to your calendar: www.cxotalk.com/episode/ai-f...
May 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Invisible AI is making decisions about our health care, work, housing, public benefits, and kids all the time. Check out our guide to help spot where gov’t officials, landlords, bosses, and others are using AI and start fighting back!

www.techtonicjustice.org/resources/ti...
May 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
One thing we do is train frontline advocates serving low-income people on the ways AI is used to make decisions about folks’ benefits, work, housing, and schooling + how to fight it.

Here, Washington’s legal aid community was a great host + audience. They left saying “oh sh*t,” the right takeaway.
March 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Excited for this! Two state senators in Connecticut have been getting lots of questions about AI from their constituents, so they've invited me to talk about AI used in government services and the associated risks of harm. Join us Thursday at 6 pm eastern via FB Live + share with your CT contacts!
February 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
There are 93 million miles to the sun. There are 92 million low-income people in the U.S. who have some key aspect of their lives—work, housing, schooling, benefits—determined by AI and related technologies. When they’re hurt, they have almost nowhere to turn. We exist to change that. Learn more 👇 👇
January 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Our origin starts with fighting--and defeating--the state of Arkansas's use of an algorithm to cut the Medicaid home-care benefits of low-income disabled people. So, I'm particularly grateful for this article about our work from My Ly of the Arkansas DemocratGazette, the state's largest newspaper.
January 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
There are 92 million low-income people in the U.S., all exposed to AI-based decisions in work, housing, school, benefits, or health care. Not minimizing cancer or other conditions, ​but AI exposure will soon need to join the pantheon of dangerous exposures like radiation, asbestos, chemical, etc 1/
December 12, 2024 at 6:35 PM
AI in health care affects nearly all low-income people. In Medicaid, AI decides whether you qualify, whether to pay for treatments your doctor recommends, and, if you have care needs that would otherwise require a nursing facility, how much in-home caregiving assistance you receive. 1/
December 4, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Here's our basic ethos about do-gooding: Do right by people because you're not gonna wear us out, you're not gonna outwork us, we're not going away, we're smarter than you, and we're coming for you.
November 26, 2024 at 6:25 PM
I hear you + justify it on the next page after your excerpt. Basically, the harms, the way people feel them, + the nature of the fight against them are not meaningfully different. I’m also careful to just be analyzing systems that make/recommend decisions to avoid encompassing basic,background stuff
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Our Inescapable AI report (www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...) comprehensively explains + quantifies AI use in the lives of the 92 million low-income people in the U.S. Essentially all face AI use in at least one key life aspect: housing, work, schooling, public benefits, or family stability.
November 22, 2024 at 5:03 PM
To mark our launch, we published a report called Inescapable AI: The ways AI decides how low-income people work, learn, live, and survive.

The report finds that all 92 million low income people in the U.S. are subject to AI-based decision making.

www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
November 19, 2024 at 2:58 PM