Right now we are in the midst of the first AI-powered genocide in the history of humankind.

There is no longer a separation between Big Tech companies and government. Today, Big Tech is supplying the military with the most advanced tools to optimise surveillance, targeting and killing. The Pentagon proudly presents Palantir's latest 3-point click tool to execute a manual kill-chain.

Most of these new systems that are relying on Big Tech are by design not classical dual-use software. These depend on ongoing maintenance and servicing by Big Tech employees. Ordinary software engineers are actively de-bugging code for live systems, effectively rendering them active participants in the battlefield.

Importantly, Big Tech employees are not a homogenous group of developers eager to create tools for war. Most Big Tech employees are either being lied to and presented with false ethical standards by their workplace or explicitly censored when questioning the use of their labor.

This is why as No Tech for Apartheid, we believe to reclaim tech means to unionise tech workers. It means to actively develop a collective conscience, to build community and to practice empathy and integrity.

Together we can reclaim tech to reclaim our agency over the future.

No Tech for Apartheid Europe is a horizontal movement, comprising independent local entities that self-organise to build community, raise awareness, develop tools, organise direct actions and create spaces for people and tech workers to discuss the militarization of technology and hold companies and organisations accountable to international law.

To join or set up a local NOTA Europe entity, get in touch: info@notechforapartheid.eu