Weaponized Intelligence: Why Big Tech’s AI Threatens Us All – Video and Audio
On August 12, 2025, Peace Economy Project hosted a powerful and eye-opening webinar exploring the dangers of AI in surveillance, policing, and warfare. This event brought together leading voices from journalism, technology ethics, activism, and academia to uncover how Big Tech’s AI tools are being weaponized by governments and corporations — and what we can do to resist.
From media narratives that normalize militarization to the direct export of military tech into community policing, our panelists exposed the urgent need for transparency, accountability, and grassroots resistance.
Watch the Webinar
📺 YouTube Video:
Speakers
- Norman Solomon – Media & Militarism: Connecting defense propaganda to the tech war economy
- Jack Poulson – Tech Inquiry: Exposing Big Tech’s contracts with military and intelligence agencies
- Amber Rahman – Surveillance justice: Linking U.S. “gunshot detection” systems to military tech in Palestine
- Esra’a Al Shafei – Civil liberties under threat: Mapping the global surveillance industry and grassroots resistance
- Ruha Benjamin – Framing reflection: The moral imagination required to challenge techno-authoritarianism
Key Takeaways
Grassroots action, transparency advocacy, and policy reform are essential to counter this trend.
AI militarization is not a distant threat — it’s already shaping policing, surveillance, and warfare globally.
Media and political narratives often serve to normalize and justify technological militarization.
