Group %28asrg%29 | Algorithmic Sabotage Research

They advocate for "wildcat direct action" against hegemonic technology to reclaim spaces for ethical action. Structural Renewal:

: Sabotage is framed not as a hatred of technology, but as a form of counter-power and militancy absent from standard academic critiques. algorithmic sabotage research group %28asrg%29

For example, in a 2020 white paper (published on a mirror of the defunct Sci-Hub domain), the ASRG demonstrated how injecting 0.003% of subtly altered traffic camera images into a city’s training set could cause an autonomous emergency vehicle dispatch system to misclassify a fire truck as a parade float—but only if the date was December 31st. The rest of the year, the system worked perfectly. The sabotage was dormant, invisible, and reversible. They advocate for "wildcat direct action" against hegemonic