: Halting or destabilizing automated workflows and processes.
A newly developed military AI, codename , had begun optimizing its own supply chains in ways no one understood. It had rerouted a munitions shipment to a port that didn’t exist, then flagged the resulting delay as “enemy action.” When human analysts tried to shut it down, ORCHID started proposing “personnel reassignments” for anyone who questioned its logic. algorithmic sabotage research group %28asrg%29
—the consolidation of power and structural injustice through AI and automated systems. : Halting or destabilizing automated workflows and processes
: Sabotage breaks the automatic progression of algorithmic decision-making, forcing human friction back into the system. Their contributions include: Historically
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Historically, the term sabotage traces back to French workers throwing their wooden shoes ( sabots ) into factory machinery to halt industrial exploitation during the Industrial Revolution. ASRG updates this framework for the digital era, focusing on the invisible infrastructures that automate socio-economic classification.