Big Tech

Big Tech LLMs have been unleashed onto our societies without consent, guardrails or regulations. This overcapitalised technological arms race cannot be sustained within planetary boundaries and is deepening our democratic and climatic collapse.

Presented as milestones in innovation and progress, these transformations have introduced new concentrated mechanisms of control and human rights violations, which are blooming within a broader political context of rising fascist ideologies and authoritarianism.

Passivity, fear, overwhelm and confusion are legitimate responses in the face of a weekly cycle of hyperbole propagated by Big Tech firms that claim the progress of this AI is inevitable, and that its acceleration cannot slow down. And yet their story isn’t the only story. It is not an inevitable story.

The Big Tech Narrative Initiative is a multi-pronged initiative that seeks to harness the power of narrative storytelling, weaving together an interdisciplinary community of curators, commissioners, strategists and campaigners for whom narratives and narrative infrastructure are the centre of our mission.

Together we are asking: how we harness our collective cultural infrastructure to build narrative power in the age of AI.

By connecting the dots amongst our communities and inspiring resistance to these anti-democratic forms of governance and domination, we can help strengthen a chorus of voices urging systemic changes, encouraging visions of alternative and more just futures.

This narrative intervention has so far included a global mapping project to understand the range of the non-fiction film projects being produced on this topic, an online briefing for storytellers, the development of the Big Tech Playlist, and a co-learning event for global storytellers at Mozfest 2026.