Seeker: Extractive Social/Economic Systems vs. Generative Social/Economic Systems
History and political economy of AI alongside models of emergence. Use these to tell the difference between systems that concentrate power and those that distribute agency.
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
Why it matters: A history of AI as a story of labor, capital, and control - sharp context for avoiding old extraction patterns in new clothes.
Skill level: Intermediate - Advanced
Resource type: Reading (Book)
Published/updated: 2023
Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report
Why it matters: A snapshot of who holds leverage across compute, data, and deployment - read it to see the power map beneath the hype.
Skill level: Intermediate - Advanced
Resource type: Report
Published/updated: 2025
Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) Resources
Why it matters: Model societies bottom-up to explore how incentives produce emergent behavior - from fragility to resilience.
Skill level: Intermediate
Resource type: Tooling - Modeling
Published/updated: Ongoing
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