Upcoming Webinar: Weaponized Intelligence – Why Big Tech’s AI Threatens Us All

Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Time: 6:00–7:30 PM ET / 5:00–6:30 PM CT

Location: Online (Zoom)

Register Now: Click here to RSVP

As artificial intelligence becomes deeply intertwined with military systems and corporate surveillance, urgent questions are emerging: Who controls this technology? Who is profiting from it? And what does this mean for democracy, civil liberties, and global peace?

Join us for Weaponized Intelligence: Why Big Tech’s AI Threatens Us All, an emergency webinar hosted by Peace Economy Project, where leading voices will unpack the rapid militarization of AI and explore grassroots resistance to tech tyranny.

Esra’a Al Shafei

Founding Director, Majal

Esra’a Al Shafei is also the co-founder of the Numun Fund, which resources and sustains women-led groups who engage with technology in their activism in the Global Majority.

Amber Rahman

Global Projects Coordinator with the Ida B. Wells Just Data
Lab, Princeton

Amber Rahman holds a degree in African American studies with certificates in Near Eastern Studies and Technology and Society from Princeton University. She aims for her research to disrupt the relationships between technological development, carcerality, and settler colonialism in order to challenge global surveillance practices and strategies of empire.

Jack Poulson

Executive Director, Tech Inquiry; former Google research scientist

Jack Poulson completed his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at UT Austin in 2012 before serving as an Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech then as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics as Stanford University. After two years as a Research Scientist in Google’s AI division working on recommendation systems and natural language processing, he resigned in protest of the company rolling back its international human rights protections and transitioned (back) into the nonprofit sector.

Ruha Benjamin

Professor, Princeton
University; Director, Ida B.
Wells Just Data Lab

As a a transdisciplinary scholar, writer and educator, Ruha Benjamin takes a critical and creative approach to investigating the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.

Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (The New Press), was published in paperback with a new afterword about the Gaza war.

🧠 What You’ll Learn:

• How military contracts are fueling AI development by Big Tech
• How deregulated AI is reinforcing surveillance, racism, and inequality
• How activists and communities are organizing for democratic, ethical alternatives

This urgent conversation will highlight the intersections between militarism, technology, and systemic injustice—and offer ways for people to take action.

📣 Let’s build a people-powered response to tech tyranny. This event is free and open to the public. Whether you’re a student, activist, technologist, or community member, your voice is needed.

👉 Register today and join the movement to demilitarize AI.

Questions? Email us at peaceeconomyproject@gmail.com